| Literature DB >> 23140150 |
Alejandro Fernández Coello1, Sophie Duvaux, Alessandro De Benedictis, Ryosuke Matsuda, Hugues Duffau.
Abstract
Neural foundations underlying visual agnosia are poorly understood. The authors present the case of a patient who underwent awake surgery for a right basal temporooccipital low-grade glioma in which direct electrostimulation was used both at the cortical and subcortical level. Brain mapping over the inferior longitudinal fascicle generated contralateral visual hemiagnosia. These original findings are in agreement with recent tractography data that have confirmed the existence of an occipitotemporal pathway connecting occipital visual input to higher-level processing in temporal lobe structures. This is the first report of a true transient visual hemiagnosia elicited through electrostimulation, supporting the crucial role of inferior longitudinal fascicle in visual recognition.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23140150 DOI: 10.3171/2012.10.JNS12527
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurosurg ISSN: 0022-3085 Impact factor: 5.115