Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1984;47:884-887 Letters

Depression caused by an intracranial meningioma relieved by leucotomy prior to diaosis of the tumour Sir: Frontal tumours sometimes present with symptoms which mimic psychiatric disease. It is not uncommon for diagnosis of the tumour to be delayed, especially if treatment of the psychological symptoms has been followed by improvement. We report the case of a woman who pre-sented with depression and focal epilepsy. Although an electroencephalogram showed a focal abnormality, she was diag-nosed as suffering from idiopathic agitated depression and was treated with a bifronta