A Case of Balint’s Syndrome Caused by Left Temporo-occipital Lobe Infarction
Departments of Family Medicine, 1Neurology, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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Abstract- Balint syndrome, first described by Balint in 1909, is a triad of visual perceptual difficulty including optic ataxia, ocular apraxia, and simultanagnosis. These three clinical symptoms are related to lesions in the partieto-occipital lobe in which cerebral infarction is the most common cause that has been reported. We described a patient that had symptoms consistent with Balint syndrome where a cerebral infarction in both parieto-occipital lobes did not exist. A 68-year-old man presented with sudden development of right-sided weakness. Although the patient displayed the classical clinical triad in Balint syndrome, a brain MRI illustrated an infarction in the medial portion of left temporo-occipital lobe and in the left thalamus.
- Keywords : Balint 증후군,시각 실조증,동시실인,안실행증, Balint syndrome,Ocular apraxia,Optic ataxia,Simultanagnosia
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