Gerstmann's syndrome and ideational apraxia with a right cerebral hemispheric lesion: A case report

Neurocase

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-66

  Dozono, Koichiro ^a,b   Hachisuka, Kenji ^b   Ohnishi, Akio ^b   Ogata, Hajime ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WRITING;

EID: 0030911290     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neucas/3.1.61     Document Type: Article

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