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INVOLVEMENT OF CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS IN ACUTE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO OCCIPITAL LOBE FUNCTIONS
Author(s) -
KUROIWA Yoshigoro,
SHIDA Kenshiro,
NAGAMATSU Keiji,
KATO Motohiro,
SANTA Tetsuji
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1967.tb01292.x
Subject(s) - neurology , medicine , family medicine , psychiatry
The pattern of cerebral involvement in acute carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication has been reported to involve the globus pallidus, and the parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes with the clinical manifestations of parkinsonism, amnesia, and an apraxiaagnosia syndrome') ,2).5) # 7 ) ~ 3 ) ~ 6 ) ~ 7 ) ~ 1 8 ) . However, most of these reports have been made on sporadiqcases. We had the opportunity to examine a group of patients with CO poisoning resulting from a large scale gas explosion in Y-coal mine in Japan in 1965. The purpose of this paper is to report on the clinical features of CO poisoning in these patients in order to stress the occipital lobe dysfunction.