A unicorn in Alice in Wonderland syndrome

We report the case of a 56-year-old man presenting several episodes of body image distortions with a sensation of having a horn growing on his forehead, as a unicorn, corresponding to the Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Brain single-photon emission computed tomography with technetium-99m hexamethylpro...

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Autores principales: Landais, Anne, Michelin, Thibault
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31933565
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_77_18
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description We report the case of a 56-year-old man presenting several episodes of body image distortions with a sensation of having a horn growing on his forehead, as a unicorn, corresponding to the Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Brain single-photon emission computed tomography with technetium-99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime showed hypoperfusion of the visual primary cortex, expanding to the temporo-occipital junction bilaterally but predominantly on the right side.
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spelling pubmed-69453512020-01-13 A unicorn in Alice in Wonderland syndrome Landais, Anne Michelin, Thibault World J Nucl Med Case Report We report the case of a 56-year-old man presenting several episodes of body image distortions with a sensation of having a horn growing on his forehead, as a unicorn, corresponding to the Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Brain single-photon emission computed tomography with technetium-99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime showed hypoperfusion of the visual primary cortex, expanding to the temporo-occipital junction bilaterally but predominantly on the right side. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6945351/ /pubmed/31933565 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_77_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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