Neuropsychological deficits associated with a tumour in the posterior corpus callosum: A report of two cases

Brain Injury

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 673-676

  Osawa, Aiko ^a   Maeshima, Shinichiro ^b   Kubo, Kenji ^c   Itakura, Toru ^c  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL WELFARE   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Amnesia; Disconnection; Splenium; Tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; AMNESIA; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 33745062265     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050600676958     Document Type: Article

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