Case report: Syndrome of the disconnection of the callus body in a patient with extensive injury - Mellitus Diabetes and malnutrition - Marchiafava-Bignami disease / Relato de caso: Síndrome da desconexão do corpo calo num doente com lesões extensas - Diabetes Mellitus e má nutrição - doença Marchiafava-Bignami | Zendy

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Case report: Syndrome of the disconnection of the callus body in a patient with extensive injury - Mellitus Diabetes and malnutrition - Marchiafava-Bignami disease / Relato de caso: Síndrome da desconexão do corpo calo num doente com lesões extensas - Diabetes Mellitus e má nutrição - doença Marchiafava-Bignami

Author(s) -

Amanda Letícia André,

Tatiane Arroyo Lopes Alves De Jesus,

Arthur Coelho Moura Marinho,

Nathalye Fernanda Pedroso Dircksen,

Marcelo Simplício Carvalho,

Renata Leite da Silva Me,

Bharbara Orsi Rabello De Oliveira,

Damácio Ramón Kaimén Maciel,

Breno Willian Correa Dos Santos

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

brazilian journal of health review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2595-6825

DOI - 10.34119/bjhrv5n1-293

Subject(s) - splenium , apraxia , corpus callosum , medicine , lesion , ataxia , multiple sclerosis , agraphia , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , white matter , radiology , aphasia , dyslexia , reading (process) , psychiatry , political science , law

MFL, 51 years old, female, right-handed, diabetic and previous stroke. Non alcoholic, and report of malnutrition. On neurological examination, he presented tactile anomy, visual agnosia, bucovisual apraxia, left hand agraphia, normal graphia right hand with Alexia, and bilateral crossed optical ataxia. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed extensive lesion with a swollen aspect in commissural fibers of the corpus callosum, notably in the right body and splenium, and corona radiata with hypersignal in T2 / FLAIR, suggesting demyelinating noninflammatory lesion or subacute vascular lesion.

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