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Volume 12, issue 1

Case report

An isolated cognitive syndrome in a patient with bilateral parietal-occipital lesions following two brain stroke episodes. Case report

JOANNA SENIÓW¹, KATARZYNA POLANOWSKA¹, Tadeusz Mendel¹

1. II Kliniki Neurologicznej Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii w Warszawie

Postępy Psychiatrii Neurologii, 2003, 12, 117-122

Keywords: bilateral parietal-occipital lesions, apraxia, visuospatial and visuoconstructive disorders

Abstract

The authors present a case of a fifty six-year-old man with bilateral brain lesions in parietal and occipital lobes due to two stroke episodes. In consequence of the lesions the patient developed an isolated cognitive syndrome, with predominant apraxia, spatial disorders, finger agnosia and selective language impairment.

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Address for correspondence:
Dr n. hum. Joanna Seniów, II Klinika Neurologiczna Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii,
ul. Sobieskiego 9, 02-957 Warszawa, e-mail: seniowj@ipin.edu.pl