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Recurrent depressive illness or craniopharyngioma: a diagnostic dilemma
A J Yusuf1, M R Mahmud, P O Ibinaiye
1Department of Psychiatry, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Shika- Zaria.
Background:
Brain tumors have been associated with various psychiatric and neurological manifestations. However in some patients with brain tumors psychiatric symptom might be the only clinical presentation for various lengths of time. As such they would be treated as straight forward psychiatric disorders.
Objective:
To report a case of craniopharyngioma presenting as recurrent depressive illness in a 42 years old man.
Methods:
Clinical follow up of a patient presenting with recurrent depressive illness till death
Results:
recurrent severe depressive illness in the absence of focal neurological deficit that is unresponsive to anti-depressant might be due to intracranial neoplasm.
Conclusion:
Brain tumors can sometime present as psychiatric disorders and be difficult to detect in the absences of focal neurological deficit and Neuro-imaging studies.
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