Involvement of the right inferior longitudinal fascicle in visual hemiagnosia: A brain stimulation mapping study - Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 202-205

  Coello, Alejandro Fernández ^a   Duvaux, Sophie ^b   De Benedictis, Alessandro ^c,d   Matsuda, Ryosuke ^e   Duffau, Hugues ^b,f  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^c BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^e NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnostic and operative techniques; Direct brain stimulation; Inferior longitudinal fascicle; Visual hemiagnosia

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL HEMIAGNOSIA; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLIOMA; HUMANS;

EID: 84872171725     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.10.JNS12527     Document Type: Article

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