J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1993; 5:428-430
Copyright © 1993 by American Neuropsychiatric Association
ECT in a patient with a frontal craniotomy and residual meningioma
SE Starkstein and R Migliorelli
Institute of Neurological Research Raul Carrea, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was used to treat a patient with a large
left frontal craniotomy and remaining frontal meningioma. Treatment was
successful and uneventful. ECT should be considered in the treatment of
drug-resistant depressed patients with craniotomies and remaining tumor.
