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Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders 2015: 14: 2: 94-97

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Splenial Corpus Callosum Infarction Presenting with Unilateral Prosopometamorphopsia: A Case Report
Chang-Min Lee
Department of Neurology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea
Splenial Corpus Callosum Infarction Presenting with Unilateral Prosopometamorphopsia: A Case Report
Chang-Min Lee
Department of Neurology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea
Background : Prosopometamorphopsia is a disorder of face perception in which faces appear distorted to the perceiver. Cases with unilateral prosopometamorphopsia caused by splenial lesion have been very rarely reported.

Case Report : A 52-year-old right-handed woman complained that the left half of people’s faces looked distorted. She stated that objects other than the face looked normal. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed an infarction of the left splenium of the corpus callosum. Electroencephalography and automated perimetry were normal.

Conclusions : The mechanism of unilateral prosopometamorphopsia remains unclear. However, it could be a dominant hemisphere-specific disconnection sign.
Key Words: prosopometamorphopsia, splenium, disconnection sign.
대한치매학회지 (Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders)