Corticobasal degeneration syndrome (CBDS) is a well-described entity, although there are some cases in which clinical manifestations do not link with pathological findings. We present a 60-year-old man with a clinical course of CBDS. Postmortem examination demonstrated the features of the Lewy body
A historical case of probable corticobasal degeneration?
β Scribed by Guillaume Ballan; Dr. Francois Tison
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 451 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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β¦ Synopsis
In 1925, Jean Lhermitte and colleagues published a work on spatial representation in apraxic patients, based on two illustrative cases. One of these displayed a clinical picture that would nowadays be clinically classified as probable corticobasal degeneration.
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