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Prospective Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Delusional Depressed Patient with a Frontal Meningioma

A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

L. B. Greenberg ,
R. Mofson  and
M. Fink
L. B. Greenberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
R. Mofson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
M. Fink
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The prospective, successful, use of ECT in a patient with a frontal meningioma is described. The authors review the literature on ECT in patients with brain tumours, and suggest factors predictive of a favourable outcome.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 105 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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