Topographic disorientation--a case report.
Topographical disorientation can be dissociated in two levels, agnosic and amnesic. A case of topographical disorientation due to a glioma of the splenium of corpus callosum illustrates the dissociation between the topographical memory impairment and the normal performances on the perceptual topographic tests.
Bottini
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Istituto di Clinica Neurologica dell'Università di Milano, Italy.
Cappa
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Geminiani
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Sterzi
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D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005910:Glioma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed