[Diagnostic dyspraxia and frontal syndrome]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1998 May;154(4):334-8.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A 27-year-old ambidexter woman experienced a clinical and psychometric frontal syndrome associated with a partial callosal syndrome following transcallosal surgery for an intraventricular neurocytoma. She also complained of difficulties with her left hand which realized a particular form of diagnostic dyspraxia: there were specific features of an isolated dysfunction of the control of the realization of a program.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Apraxias / diagnosis*
  • Apraxias / etiology
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Corpus Callosum / pathology*
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neurocytoma / surgery
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Postoperative Complications / pathology
  • Postoperative Complications / physiopathology*
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Syndrome