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Subcortical prosopagnosia and anosognosia.

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A 59-year-old right-handed woman with acute hemorrhage affecting the head of the left caudate nucleus exhibited prosopagnosia and anosognosia. It is suggested that these symptoms are due to a disconnection syndrome affecting a putative cortico-limbic reticular loop involved in attention.

[Associative visual agnosia--a case report].

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A 61 year-old right-handed man, a president of a company fell downstairs and was found unconscious on January 1, 1985. He was admitted to a hospital and he had been unresponsive for 10 days. As he recovered from the consciousness disturbance, he complained of difficulties in discrimination of common

Call-Fleming postpartum angiopathy in the puerperium: a reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.

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BACKGROUND The postpartum angiopathy (Call-Fleming syndrome) is a rare, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. Unlike in eclampsia, neither proteinuria nor hypertension have been observed in the Call-Fleming syndrome. METHODS A 17-year-old woman developed headache, seizures, confusion,

Remission of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy following highly active antiretroviral therapy in a man with AIDS.

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A 43-year-old Caucasian homosexual man with AIDS presented with blurring of vision, change of personality, and memory loss in March 1999. He had first been admitted 2 months previously for treatment of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia. A magnetic resonance imaging scan on admission showed multiple

Surgical techniques in radiation induced temporal lobe necrosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.

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BACKGROUND Radiation induced brain injury ranges from acute reversible edema to late, irreversible radiation necrosis. Radiation induced temporal lobe necrosis is associated with permanent neurological deficits and occasionally progresses to death. OBJECTIVE We present our experience with surgery on

Klüver Bucy syndrome, unusual consequence of excessively rapid correction of severe hyponatremia.

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BACKGROUND Features of Klüver-Bucy syndrome (KBS) include hypersexuality, hyperorality, placidity, visual agnosia, amnesia, hypermetamorphosis, and emotional and nutritional behavior changes. It is a clinical presentation of bitemporal disorders with limbic system abnormalities. The most common

[Cerebral infarction associated with nephrotic syndrome in a young adult: a case report].

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We report a 19-year-old man who developed a cerebral infarction in the territory of the anterior choroidal artery and showed a hypercoagulable state and nephrotic syndrome after diarrhea and appetite loss. He had suffered from nephrotic syndrome from the age of three and had been treated for five

The isolated occlusion of the angular gyri artery. A correlative neurological and anatomical study--case report.

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We examined a patient who had signs of a cerebral hemisphere lesion: right hemiparesis, facial weakness, right hemianopsy, acustico-mnestic dysphasia, "empty speech," acalculia, visuo-spatial agnosia and constructional apraxia, but without changes in consciousness. Taking into account clinical

Kluver-Bucy syndrome: report of a case with nasopharyngeal cancer after irradiation and chemotherapy.

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A case of Kluver-Bucy syndrome associated with delayed cerebral necrosis after radiation therapy and chemotherapy is reported. The patient--a 51-year-old man who was a victim of nasopharyngeal cancer--developed a complex behavioral disturbance consisting of visual agnosia, alteration of sexual

Diagnosis of a Rare Intraventricular Schwannoma: A Case Report.

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Intraventricular schwannoma is extremely rare, with only 35 cases reported to date in the literature. Consequently, its etiology and pathogenesis are still unclear, and thus require further investigations. Here, we report on and discuss a rare case of intraventricular schwannoma to

Transient encephalopathy from angiographic contrast: a rare complication in neurointerventional procedures.

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Neurotoxicity from contrast media used in angiography is a rare complication from these procedures. The infrequency with which it is encountered makes it a diagnostic challenge. We present the case of a 51-year-old male who, 30 min after successful angiography for treatment of a right

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