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Abstract

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is common and frequently disabling psychiatric disorder. The onset of OCD is usually in adolesence and early adulthood. In literature there are limited case reports which were investigating the association between frontal brain tumors and OCD. In this paper, we report a case who developed late onset OCD after resection of a frontal menengioma

Keywords

• Late, obsessive, frontal lobe

Frontal Menenjiom Rezeksiyonu ve Geç Başlangıçlı Obsesif-Kompulsif Bozukluk Arasında Muhtemel İlişki: Bir Vaka Raporu

Abstract

Obsesif-Kompulsif Bozukluk (OKB) yaygın ve sıklıkla
işgücü kaybına sebep olan psikiyatrik bir bozukluktur.
OKB’nin başlangıcı genellikle yetişkinlikte ve yetişkinliğin
erken dönemlerinde olur. Literatürde frontal beyin tümörleri
ve OKB arasındaki ilişkiyi inceleyen sınırlı sayıda vaka
raporu bulunmaktadır. Bu yazıda, Frontal menenjiom
rezeksiyonu sonrasında geç başlangıçlı OKB geliştiren bir
vaka sunmaktayız. 

Keywords

• Geç, obsesif, frontal lob

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