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a clear-cut case ofa depressed menopausal woman in family crisis. Organic illness had been excluded. The many contaminating factors from Mrs A. and her family and also within our own system impeded our diagnostic process considerably. We too initially failed to recognise the symptoms of slowly devel oping hydrocephalus, despite allearly pointers. Only once we had assimilated all the information on Mrs A. and observed her further deterioration did we pick up the extremely rare third ventricle cyst. R. L. RAMSEY U. H. SCHMIDT R. M. ROSSER Middlesex Hospital London WiN 8AA