Topographic disorientation and amnesia due to cerebral hemorrhage in the left retrosplenial region [2]

European Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 79-82

  Osawa, Aiko ^a   Maeshima, Shinichiro ^b   Kunishio, Katsuzo ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISORIENTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LETTER; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

AMNESIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 37249063029     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109572     Document Type: Letter

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