Unusual visual symptoms and Ganser-like state due to cerebral injury: A case study using 18F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-54

  Snyder, Stephen L ^a,b   Buchsbaum, Monte S ^a   Krishna, R C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Cerebral metabolism; Ganser syndrome; Polyopia

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ASTHMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIPLOPIA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0031690104     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1998/907914     Document Type: Article

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