Clinical analysis of 7 patients with Gerstmann syndrome secondary to cerebral vascular disease / 中国医学科学院学报
Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae
; (6): 510-511, 2002.
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To analyze clinical features of patients with Gerstmann syndrome (GS).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>We retrospectively analysed the clinical manifestations of 7 patients (6 men and 1 woman) with GS secondary to cerebral vascular diseases and reviewed the literatures.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The age ranged from 51 to 70 years with a mean of 70 years. They all had sudden onset and the tetrad of GS-finger agnosia, left-right disorientation, agraphia and acalculia, 3 patients accompanied by incomplete aphasia, 3 by anomic aphasia, 2 by alexia and 1 by constructional apraxia. Cranial computed tomographic scan showed low-density focus of the left parietal lobe in 6 cases and high-density focus of the left parietal lobe in 1 case.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>GS has the high value in localization and the lesion is mainly localized to angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere.</p>
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Assunto principal:
Diagnóstico por Imagem
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Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
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Infarto Cerebral
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Estudos Retrospectivos
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Síndrome de Gerstmann
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Diagnóstico
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Zh
Revista:
Acta Academiae Medicinae Sinicae
Ano de publicação:
2002
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Article