CLINICAL CASE: CATATONIC SYNDROME IN FEMALE WITH BRAIN TUMOR
Catatonic symptoms belong to complicated psychopathological phenomena and reflect the impairment of deep brain structures that results in prevalent motor disturbances in human body. Catatonia is frequently linked with chronic endogenous disorders though one should keep in mind that it could have organic origin; however this subject is poorly reflected in recent literature. This article describes a case of severe catatonic syndrome in a female patient with frontal lobe brain tumor. This case is interesting also because for a long time catatonia manifestations alternated with psychoorganic syndrome and delirium and fluctuated in severity of symptoms. All this complicated the procedure of diagnosis. The decisive role in diagnosis belonged to neuroimaging. Characteristics of catatonia suggested in this case possible tumor in frontal lobe.