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A CASE OF POSTTRAUMATIC INTERHEMISPIIERIC DISCONNECTION SYNDROME Toshitaro Nakatani 1 , Jun Watanabe 1 , Tadaharu Tashiro 1 , Shizuka Takeishi 2 , Gen Takeishi 2 , Keiko Hosoda 2 , Kazuo Uemura 3 1Department of Internal Medicine, Nakadohri Rehabilitation Hospital 2Division of Speech Therapy, Nakadohri Rehabilitation Hospital 3Division of Radiology, Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-AKITA pp.65-71
Published Date 1984/1/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406205253
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Rubens, A. B. et al (1977) stated as follows ;gross and microscopic lesions of the corpus callo-sum and neighboring structures were seen com-monly in severe closed head injury, neverthless only one case before they reported there was in which the callosal disconnection syndrome was observed in literatures.

We report a case demonstrating the callosal disconnection syndrome after severe frontal head injury. He was a 34-years old right-handed male. He was injured by traffic accident at Oct. 1981, and operated for epidural hematoma and bilateral frontal contusions. His bilateral optic nerve and olfactory tract were injured at same time, and so complete blindness and anosmia have occured. Therefor we could not test with the aid of his visual or olfactory functions, but by some somes-thetic function tests we could find severe tactile interhemispheric transfer disturbance, unilateral left-sided tactile anomia, left-sided apraxia and left-sided apraxic agraphia. Moreover diagonistic dyspraxia and confabulatory response have been observed also.

CT showed the marked low-density lesions in the antero-basal aspects of the bilateral frontal lobes. Tissue destruction of the corpus callosum extendes from the rostrum to the genu of the corpus callosum, but the truncus and splenium of that are seemed to be structurally normal. Cereb-ral atrophy is prominent in the bilateral frontal lobes and the anterior aspects of the temporal lobes.

These coexisting extracallosal hemispheric lesi-ons in the brain may have modified the effects of callosal pathology. And we must be concerned about that the structural local damage of the brain displaying on the CT may be possible to dissociate from functional local damage of the brain.

These findings with the exception of diagonistic dyspraxia which is improving gradually, have been consistently between 8-15 months after the accident of head trauma.


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