[Site-dependent psychopathologic symptoms in brain tumors exemplified by olfactory meningioma]

Despite the propagation of imaging techniques in recent years, brain neoplasms are still identified too late in many cases, not least because of a disregard or misinterpretation of early psychiatric symptoms. By means of a detailed report of a case of olfactorius meningioma, together with a summary of 13 other cases from the same hospital over the past 15 years, it is demonstrated that a specious psychodynamic "understanding" may delay the correct diagnosis. Possible reasons for the initial false diagnosis are considered in detail.