When the left brain is not right the right brain may be left: report of personal experience of occipital hemianopia.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
To make a personal report of a hemianopia due to an occipital infarct, sustained by a professor of neurology. Verbatim observation of neurological phenomena recorded during the acute illness. Hemianopia, visual hallucinations, and non-occipital deficits without extraoccipital lesions on MRI, are described and discussed. Hemianopia, due to an occipital infarct, without alexia, is not a disability which precludes a normal professional career. Neurorehabilitation has not been necessary.
Medical subject headings
- Cerebral Infarction
- Dominance, Cerebral
- Hemianopsia
- Occipital Lobe