Intracranial Tumors Found at Autopsy in Mental Patients

Intragranial Tumors in a Psychiatric Autopsy Material

“…The composition of the material also shows great conformity with previous works (Patton & Sheppard (1956)). …”

Neurosurgical disease encountered in a psychiatric service

“…This figure is often quoted despite the fact that small meningiomas, choroid plexus tumours, and the now rare tuberculomas and syphilitic gummas were included. On the other hand, Klotz (1957) established an incidence of 2.0% at postmortem examination, which is similar to the incidence of 2.3% found in a postmortem study conducted in a general hospital and quoted by Patton and Sheppard (1956). In another study evidence of subdural haematomas, particularly significant in psychiatric hospital practice, was found in 8% of psychiatric inpatients coming to postmortem examination (Allen et al, 1940), the haematoma being the cause of death in 1100%.…”

“…Patton and Sheppard (1956) found that 32% of intracranial tumours in psychiatric patients were meningiomas. The low incidence in this series however corresponds with that found by Selecki (1965).…”

Cerebral Malignancy in Psychiatry: EEG Aspects

“…Tumors of different cellular types have their own malig nancy and rate of progression, which may in itself be responsible for differ ences in clinical symptomatology. According to some authors extracerebral meningiomas prevail among patients exhibiting psychic symptoms [Patton and Sheppard, 1956;Avery, 1971;Rieke, 1975;van Oudenaarden, 1978], It is argued that the slow rate of progression inherent to this type of tumor may be responsible for the prevalence of psychic symptoms. Other authors mention a preponderance in numbers of gliomas -and of glioblastoma multiforme in particular -among tumor patients admitted to a psychiatric ward [Guvener et al, 1964;Selecki, 1965;Abraham et al, 1972;Williams et al, 1974;Chodkiewicz et al, 1980].…”