Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction

Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction

Behavioral disorders were a prominent clinical feature after the surgical treatment of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture in a 44-year-old man. Callosal apraxia was associated with an alien hand. The latter remained 1 year after surgery while diagonistic apraxia disappeared after 3 mo...

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Main Authors: J. P. Lejeune, D. Caparros-Lefebvre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1993-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1993-6109
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spelling doaj-29a8e423e021407faa7f05453034ac892021-07-02T02:57:30ZengHindawi LimitedBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85841993-01-0161555710.3233/BEN-1993-6109Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral InfarctionJ. P. Lejeune0D. Caparros-Lefebvre1Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, FranceDepartment of Neurology, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, FranceBehavioral disorders were a prominent clinical feature after the surgical treatment of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture in a 44-year-old man. Callosal apraxia was associated with an alien hand. The latter remained 1 year after surgery while diagonistic apraxia disappeared after 3 months. Other callosal signs included left agraphia, tactile anomia and auditory suppression. MRI revealed posterior callosal infarction and a right frontal infarct. The association of diagonistic apraxia and alien hand is rarely reported.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1993-6109
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author J. P. Lejeune
D. Caparros-Lefebvre
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D. Caparros-Lefebvre
Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
Behavioural Neurology
author_facet J. P. Lejeune
D. Caparros-Lefebvre
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title Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
title_short Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
title_full Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
title_fullStr Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
title_full_unstemmed Behavioral Disorders in Association with Posterior Callosal and Frontal Cerebral Infarction
title_sort behavioral disorders in association with posterior callosal and frontal cerebral infarction
publisher Hindawi Limited
series Behavioural Neurology
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1875-8584
publishDate 1993-01-01
description Behavioral disorders were a prominent clinical feature after the surgical treatment of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture in a 44-year-old man. Callosal apraxia was associated with an alien hand. The latter remained 1 year after surgery while diagonistic apraxia disappeared after 3 months. Other callosal signs included left agraphia, tactile anomia and auditory suppression. MRI revealed posterior callosal infarction and a right frontal infarct. The association of diagonistic apraxia and alien hand is rarely reported.
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