"seeing but not identifying": Pure alexia coincident with prosopagnosia in occipital arteriovenous malformation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1087-1089

  Liu, Yu Chi ^a   Wang, An Guor ^a,b   Yen, May Yung ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Occipital arteriovenous malformation; Prosopagnosia; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLEXIA; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SLIT LAMP; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALEXIA, PURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79959727750     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-010-1586-4     Document Type: Article

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