Progressive visual agnosia with posterior cortical atrophy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 176-178

  Mizuno, Masafumi ^a,c   Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Liccione, Davide ^a   Battelli, Lorella ^a   Campo, Rosario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b General Hospital of Treviso   (Italy)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Neuropsychology; Posterior cortical atrophy; Visual agnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030152916     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(95)00091-7     Document Type: Article

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