A reversible case of Klüver-Bucy syndrome in association with shigellosis.
The Klüver-Bucy syndrome is characterized by psychic blindness or visual agnosia, blunted affect, hypermetamorphosis, hyperorality, bulimia, and sexual behavioral alterations. To date, there have been fewer than 10 reported cases of Klüver-Bucy syndrome in children, most of them irreversible. We describe here a reversible case of the complete Klüver-Bucy syndrome in a child suffering from Shigella encephalopathy.
Guedalia
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Department of Psychiatry, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Zlotogorski
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Goren
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Steinberg
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D000377:Agnosia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002032:Bulimia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000150:complications*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012763:Shigella flexneri / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013577:Syndrome; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology