Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia

A lesion to the right lateral geniculate nucleus should cause a complete left monocular hemianopia. We present a case of a patient with left eye monocular temporal hemianopia with two MRIs demonstrating an ischemic defect at the right lateral geniculate body as the likely culprit. Patient improved a...

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Autores principales: Liu, Antonio, Sanguino, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6552942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2189
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description A lesion to the right lateral geniculate nucleus should cause a complete left monocular hemianopia. We present a case of a patient with left eye monocular temporal hemianopia with two MRIs demonstrating an ischemic defect at the right lateral geniculate body as the likely culprit. Patient improved after 4 days.
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spelling pubmed-65529422019-06-10 Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia Liu, Antonio Sanguino, Luis Clin Case Rep Case Reports A lesion to the right lateral geniculate nucleus should cause a complete left monocular hemianopia. We present a case of a patient with left eye monocular temporal hemianopia with two MRIs demonstrating an ischemic defect at the right lateral geniculate body as the likely culprit. Patient improved after 4 days. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6552942/ /pubmed/31183099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2189 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title_full Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title_fullStr Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title_full_unstemmed Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title_short Right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
title_sort right lateral geniculate nucleus infarct presenting as a left monocular temporal hemianopia
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6552942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2189
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