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- Title
Brain tumour, mood disorder and encephalopathy. Discusion [sic] of the clinical case presented in volume 6, number 2.
- Authors
Velandia Hurtado F; Salgado Cardozo JP
- Abstract
We report a case of a 65 years old female patient, who was admitted to the hospital with non specific neurological symptoms and who had preliminary imagenological findings of an extra-axial tumor mass (a meningioma of the sphenoid's wing), which was taken to complete surgical removal. Afterwards, she developed progressive neurologic deterioration until her death. The final diagnosis was acute spongiform encephalophaty, and was obtained by cerebral biopsy. Spongiform encephalopathy was described, almost a century ago, as the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, poorly diagnosed in our environment because of its low frequency and uncommon onset, which starts with a mood disorder followed by a phase of dementia and a final fatal outcome. The gold standard for the diagnosis is based on a biopsy or an autopsy of the brain, with immunohistochemical stains for the prionic abnormal protein.
- Publication
Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
1692-7273
- Publication type
Journal Article