Generalized anxiety disorder in a patient prior to the diagnosis of left temporal lobe meningioma: A case report

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1082-1083

  Tsai, Meng Chang ^a   Huang, Tiao Lai ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; FLUOXETINE; PHENYTOIN; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LETTER; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 67651119872     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.05.021     Document Type: Letter

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