AccScience Publishing / HPR / Volume 9 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.52965/001c.27359
Cite this article
10
Download
1262
Views
Related Info Links
More by Authors Links
Journal Browser
Volume | Year
Issue
Search
News and Announcements
View All
GENERAL

Relapse of Psychosis Status Post Meningioma Resection

Hamza Mohammad-Amin1* Amber N. Edinof1 Haseeb A. Akuly1 Prithvi Doppalapudi1 Rita Horton1 Anthony Sin1 Donard Dwyer1 City Mohammad Amin1 Sana Shamim1
Show Less
1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine , Louisiana State University Health Shreveport
Received: 30 June 2021 | Accepted: 25 July 2021 | Published online: 11 August 2021
© 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

A 53-year-old Caucasian female with a previous psychiatric history of bipolar I disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder presented to the emergency department after endorsing 10-11 months of auditory and visual hallucinations, persecutory delusions, depression, anosmia, weakness of lower extremities, and headache. The patient described her auditory hallucinations as non-commanding voices talking to her about her family, her visual hallucinations as seeing “shadows and shapes,” and her paranoid delusions as people coming after her. The patient had sustained a fall a week and a half earlier, requiring eight sutures to her posterior scalp. Her MRI of the brain showed a well-circumscribed 3.5 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm mass in the floor of the anterior cranial fossa. Computer tomography of the brain showed a 4.5 cm mass near the anterior interhemispheric fissure and edema in the right frontal cortex. Meningioma resection resulted in the cessation of hallucinations and delusions for one week. However, the patient was brought back to the emergency department because her auditory hallucinations and delusions returned. This case report demonstrates residual psychosis, even after frontal meningioma resection.

Keywords
visual hallucinations
auditory hallucinations
meningiomas
psychosis
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
References

1. Wiemels J, Wrensch M, Claus EB. Epidemiology and etiology of meningioma. Journal of neuro-oncology.2010;99:314.

2. Apra C, Peyre M, Kalamarides M. Current treatment options for meningioma. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics.2018;18(3):241-249. doi:10.1080/14737175.2018.1429920

3. Kauke M,Safi AF,Stavrinou P, Krischek B,Goldbrunner R,Timmer M. Does Meningioma Volume Correlate with Clinical Disease Manifestation Irrespective of Histopathologic Tumor Grade? Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.2019;30(8):e799-e802.doi:10.1097/scs.0000000000005845

4. Coetzer R. Auditory Hallucinations Secondary to a Right Frontal Meningioma. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.2014;26(3):E15. doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.13060142

5. Keshavan MS, Kahn EM, Brar JS. Musical hallucinations following removal of a right frontal meningioma. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery&Psychiatry.1988;51(9):1235-1236.doi:10.1136/jnnp.51.9.1235

Share
Back to top
Health Psychology Research, Electronic ISSN: 2420-8124 Published by AccScience Publishing