Altitudinal neglect in a patient with occipital infarction
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Published on: November 19, 2020
A Ergun-Marterer1, E Ergun, M Mentes
1Rehabilitation Centre for Head Injury Patients, Meidling, AUVA, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Visual neglect has been frequently described in a horizontal direction. Altitudinal neglect, however, has rarely been described and has been associated with bilateral lesions in the parieto-occipital or temporo-occipital region. The following case report presents a patient with marked altitudinal neglect of the inferior space which was elicited using a line bisection test. The previously healthy patient had well-defined lesions solely in the occipital cortex following an embolic infarction. The present case report underlines the possibility that bioccipital lesions themselves can be responsible for altitudinal neglect.
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