Four legs: Illusory reduplication of the lower limbs after bilateral parietal lobe damage

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1543-1547

  Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a   Reverdin, Alain ^a   Landis, Theodor ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DELUSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER;

EID: 0030779191     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550240091017     Document Type: Article

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