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Parietal Ataxia
OTTO APPENZELLER, MB, BS, MRACP, PhD;
JAMES COLE HANSON, MD
Arch Neurol. 1966;15(3):264-269.
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INCOORDINATION of movement similar to that caused by cerebellar disease but due to lesions of the parietal lobe has rarely been reported.1 In four cases examined pathologically the clinicopathological correlation was difficult. Nevertheless, it is believed that a variety of ataxia can occur with lesions of the paracentral lobule.2
The purpose of this report is to describe the clinicopathological study of a patient suffering from ataxia of the left upper limb, which was related to a small infarction in the cortex of the right post-central gyrus, and to review the pertinent literature.
Report of a Case
This was the first admission of a 66-year-old right-handed white farmer to the Cincinnati Veterans Administration Hospital. Four years before his final illness he had had a myocardial infarction treated at another hospital and had been receiving anticoagulant therapy since that time. For two years he complained of
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Author Affiliations
LOND; CINCINNATI
From the Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, and the departments of neurology (Dr. Appenzeller) and medicine (Dr. Hanson), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 15, 1966; accepted April 29.
Reprint requests to Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Cincinnati 45220 (Dr. Appenzeller).
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