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[Visual and tactile agnosia].

P Morin·Y Rivrain·F Eustache·J Lambert·P Courtheoux
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A patient presented with visual and tactile agnosia due to a spontaneous left occipito-temporal hematoma. Major memory and spatial orientation disorders were also noted, but language, gestures, auditory and olfactory perception, and interior visual imagerie were unaffected. A review of the literature since 1970 found 6 cases of an association of this type among 17 patients with visual agnosia. There appears to be no relationship between the presence of tactile agnosia and the global or partial character of the visual agnosia, the severity of memory disturbances, the presence of visuoverbal disconnection or visual imagery disorders. In contrast, these cases differed in that the lesions were more extensive and extended beyond the internal occipital regions: they were widespread in 3 cases and in the left internal occipital and parietal region in 1 case. In the patient reported in this paper there was a wide lesion of the posterior white matter of the left hemisphere.

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P Morin, Y Rivrain, F Eustache, J Lambert, P Courtheoux. 1984. [Visual and tactile agnosia].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6718915/

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