Abstract

VELANDIA HURTADO, Fernando  and  SALGADO CARDOZO, Juan Pablo. Brain tumor, mood disorder and encephalopathy. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.2, pp.107-110. ISSN 1692-7273.

We report a case of a patient was 65 years old, who was admitted with neurologic symptoms ill-defined by imaging findings that initial meningioma wing of the sphenoid, tumor resection, is performed. She presented torpid evolution, progressive neurological deterioration, until her death.

Keywords : encephalitis; spongiform; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); meningioma.