Teaching NeuroImages: Unilateral prosopometamorphopsia as a dominant hemisphere-specific disconnection sign
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Teaching NeuroImages: Unilateral prosopometamorphopsia as a dominant hemisphere-specific disconnection sign.
We report 2 patients who complained that the left half of faces appeared distorted. A 58-year-old right-handed woman explained that although the left side of the face was clearly visible, it appeared distorted “like a monster.” The left eye looked elongated toward the left ear, while the nose appeared to be bent toward the left cheek, and the mouth toward the chin. She did not have any dyslexia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e31821d74a0