Prosopagnosia in a patient with left occipitotemporal infarction
Tatsanai Janhnong, D. of Internal Medicine, F. of Medicine, PSU.
Suwanna Sinsawaiwong, D. of Internal Medicine, F. of Medicine, PSU.
Pattaree Sataworn, D. of Psychiatry, F. of Medicine, PSU.
Corresponding e-mail : ssuwanna@ratree.psu.ac.th
Presented : The 16th Annual Academic Meeting, Faculty of Medicine, PSU, Hat Yai, Songkhla,
16-18 August 2000
Key words : prosopagnosia, left occipitotemporal infarction
Prosopagnosia is a unique disorder in which major character is an inability to recognize familiar faces. Prosopagnosia usually occurs in bilateral occipital or occipitotemporal lesions, less common in right-side lesions. However, there is no report of such disorder in left hemispheric lesion. We presented a 50-year-old, right-handed man with acute onset of prosopagnosia and acalculia. Computerize tomography of the brain showed left occipitotemporal infarction.
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