✦ LIBER ✦
Case report: Frontal lobe tumor presenting as late onset depression
✍ Scribed by Adam J. Goodman; Anand Kumar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
A 64-year-old female with no past psychiatric history presented with a two-month history of depressive symptoms. She met DSM-111-R criteria for major depressive episode with melancholia. Physical exam revealed a left-sided Horner's syndrome, and MRI scan of the brain revealed large bilateral frontal lobe masses that were neurologically silent. This case demonstrates that intracranial tumors can present as late onset depression without significant accompanying neurologic deficits. KEY worms-Late onset depression, frontal lobe, neurologically silent.