[Multiple sclerosis with higher cerebral dysfunction: a case report].

K Hatakeyama; M Aihara; A Shimizu; N Uchida; T Inukai

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[Multiple sclerosis with higher cerebral dysfunction: a case report].

K Hatakeyama·M Aihara·A Shimizu·N Uchida·T Inukai

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Higher cerebral dysfunctions such as aphasia, apraxia and agnosia have seldom been reported in multiple sclerosis (MS). 12 year-old right-handed boy felt unsteadiness of the body and headache for several days. Two months later, he had the same episode and complained of visual disturbance, and weakness and sensory disturbance on the face and the extremities. Additionally, he showed amnestic aphasia, acalculia, ideomotor apraxia, finger agnosia and right-left disorientation. Cerebrospinal fluid examinations revealed increases IgG, myelin basic protein and neuron specific enolase (11%, 25 ng/ml and 28.8 ng/ml, respectively). X-ray CT scan and MRI-CT examinations revealed sclerotic lesions on the left parietal white matter and the right mid-brain. The diagnosis was made as MS. He was treated with m-PSL (methyl-prednisolone) pulse therapy for three weeks and consecutively treated with PSL for four weeks. He recovered gradually, but visual disturbance and facial palsy remained. After seven months MRI-CT showed a high signal intensity on the left parietal white matter in spite of the disappearance of the lesion on X-ray CT scan. We suggest that these higher cerebral dysfunctions may result from the lesion of the left parietal white matter which produces a disconnection between each cortical area.

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K Hatakeyama, M Aihara, A Shimizu, N Uchida, T Inukai. 1991. [Multiple sclerosis with higher cerebral dysfunction: a case report].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1994997/

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