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Klüver-Bucy syndrome after left anterior temporal resection
F Ghika-Schmid1, G Assal, N De Tribolet
1Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Neuropsychologia
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 70-year-old right-handed woman developed a complete Klüver-Bucy syndrome including psychic blindness, aberrant sexual behavior, hypermetamorphosis, aphasia and visual agnosia following left anterior temporal lobectomy for an anaplasic oligodendroglioma. MRI showed no argument for a contralateral ischemic infarct, tumoral growth or white matter damage. Thus the possibility that a unilateral anterior temporal lesion can cause the whole picture of Klüver-Bucy syndrome must therefore be considered.