Behavioral disorders in association with posterior callosal and frontal cerebral infarction.
Behavioral disorders were a prominent clinical feature after the surgical treatment of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture in a 44-year-old man. Callosal apraxia was associated with an alien hand. The latter remained 1 year after surgery while diagonistic apraxia disappeared after 3 months. Other callosal signs included left agraphia, tactile anomia and auditory suppression. MRI revealed posterior callosal infarction and a right frontal infarct. The association of diagonistic apraxia and alien hand is rarely reported.
Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, France.
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Lejeune
Department of Neurology, CHRU Lille, 59037 Lille Cédex, France.
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Caparros-Lefebvre
Alien hand; Callosal infarction; Diagonistic apraxia