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10572801

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-1-3
pubmed:abstractText
Cortical blindness and Balint's syndrome are two pathologies not well-known. It seems therefore interesting to report a typical patient case, suffering from Benson's posterior cortical atrophy, who presented successively both syndromes. The Balint's syndrome, which results from a bilateral parieto-occipital junction brain injury, and combines clinically a specified triad defects: a spatial disorder of attention, a psychic paralysis of gaze and an optic ataxia. The cortical blindness, which is caused by bilateral damage of the occipital lobes (Broadman area 17). Electrophysiologically, the abolition of short-latency components of visual evoked potentials and the presence of long-latency potentials are recorded. Visual strategy and visual evoked potentials are thus the only objective examinations allowing to diagnose and follow up these patient's evolution. In any case, an adequate visual rehabilitation has to be carried out in order to help the patient recovering his autonomy.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0181-5512
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
876-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
[Electrophysiologic diagnosis of 2 psycho-visual syndromes: Balint syndrome and cortical blindness. A propos of a case of Benson progressive posterior atrophy].
pubmed:affiliation
Service d'Electrophysiologie, CHNO des Quinze Vingts, Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports