Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3231588 | Annals of Emergency Medicine | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Olfactory and gustatory hallucinations are not often encountered in the acute care setting but may represent the subtle presenting features of a significant underlying disease process. We describe a patient whose most striking presenting symptoms were of olfactory and gustatory hallucinations and in whom the diagnosis and treatment of a new brain tumor and partial status epilepticus occurred entirely in the emergency department. The lesion was subsequently identified as glioblastoma multiforme involving the hippocampus and amygdala.
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Authors
Dan J. Capampangan, Matthew T. Hoerth, Joseph F. Drazkowski, Christopher A. Lipinski,