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KMID : 0359719970150020368
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Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
1997 Volume.15 No. 2 p.368 ~ p.376
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Personification of Plegic Limb Following Right Hemispheric Stroke: A Case Report
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Abstract
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We report a case of 53-year-old woman with personification following right middle cerebrl artery territory infarction. Although she knew that her paralyzed left limbs belonged toher, to her, she behaved as if it is a separate person.
Verbaliza-tion
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hatred toward her left arm was froquently observed. She attributed her neurologic deficit to the left arm instead of herself, frequently complaining in a fashion that 'I(a person except for the left arm) am all right but he/she(left arm) is
wrong'.This
deldsional beliefs were mainly confined to her paralysed left limb, and were accompanied by left spatial neglect, transient anosognosia for hemiplegia and right-left disorientation.
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