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KMID : 0978920090100040397
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Korean Journal of Clinical Geriatrics
2009 Volume.10 No. 4 p.397 ~ p.400
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Lee Sang-Min
Lee Seung-Hye
Choi Youn-Seon
Eun Mi-Yeon
Oh Kyung-Mi
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Abstract
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Balint syndrome, first described by Balint in 1909, is a triad of visual perceptual difficulty includingoptic 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.
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KEYWORD
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Balint syndrome, Ocular apraxia, Optic ataxia, Simultanagnosia
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