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Revista Ciencias de la Salud
versão impressa ISSN 1692-7273versão On-line ISSN 2145-4507
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VELANDIA HURTADO, Fernando e SALGADO CARDOZO, Juan Pablo. Brain Tumour, Mood Disorder and Encephalopathy. Discusion of the Clinical Case Presented in Volume 6, Number 2. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.1, pp.100-105. ISSN 1692-7273.
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 sphenoids 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.
Palavras-chave : encephalopaty; spongiform; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD); meningioma.