Confabulations after Bilateral Consecutive Strokes of the Lenticulostriate Arteries

We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who manifested persistent confabulations after two consecutive strokes encompassing the area of the lenticulostriate arteries territory on both hemispheres. Findings reported on this rare clinical syndrome suggest that fantastic confabulations and delusion...

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Autores principales: Carota, Antonio, Calabrese, Pasquale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published: March, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000337221
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description We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who manifested persistent confabulations after two consecutive strokes encompassing the area of the lenticulostriate arteries territory on both hemispheres. Findings reported on this rare clinical syndrome suggest that fantastic confabulations and delusional thoughts may arise after bilateral damage of subcortical nonthalamic structures.
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spelling pubmed-33622212012-05-30 Confabulations after Bilateral Consecutive Strokes of the Lenticulostriate Arteries Carota, Antonio Calabrese, Pasquale Case Rep Neurol Published: March, 2012 We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman who manifested persistent confabulations after two consecutive strokes encompassing the area of the lenticulostriate arteries territory on both hemispheres. Findings reported on this rare clinical syndrome suggest that fantastic confabulations and delusional thoughts may arise after bilateral damage of subcortical nonthalamic structures. S. Karger AG 2012-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3362221/ /pubmed/22649343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000337221 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Confabulations after Bilateral Consecutive Strokes of the Lenticulostriate Arteries
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title_short Confabulations after Bilateral Consecutive Strokes of the Lenticulostriate Arteries
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