Clinical Progress of Gerstmann's Syndrome with Left Frontal Lobe Lesion: Two Cases

Hyemi Lee; Heung-Seok Park; Minsu Kim; Yejin Lee; Juhee Chin; Yun-Hee Kim

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Lee, Park, Kim, Lee, Chin, and Kim: Clinical Progress of Gerstmann's Syndrome with Left Frontal Lobe Lesion: Two Cases

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Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders 2013; 12(4): 114-118.

Published online: 31 December 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12779/dnd.2013.12.4.114

Clinical Progress of Gerstmann's Syndrome with Left Frontal Lobe Lesion: Two Cases

Hyemi Lee, M.S.^*, Heung-Seok Park, M.S.^*, Minsu Kim, M.D.^*, Yejin Lee, B.S.^*, Juhee Chin, Ph.D.^†, Yun-Hee Kim, M.D.^*

^*Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sunkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

^†Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Address for correspondence: Yun-Hee Kim, M.D. Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: +82-2-3410-2824, Fax: +82-2-3410-0388, yun1225.kim@samsung.com

Address for correspondence: Juhee Chin, Ph.D. Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: +82-2-3410-2730, Fax: +82-2-3410-2759, juhee.chin@samsung.com

Received 1 December 2013 Revised 12 December 2013 Accepted 12 December 2013

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Abstract

Gerstmann's syndrome, assigned to a lesion of the dominant parietal lobe, is a neurological disorder characterized by acalculia, agraphia, right-left disorientation and finger agnosia. Some studies report that these symptoms are also shown in other brain lesions. We report two patients who presented with this tetrad of symptoms in initial assessment. Their Brain MRI images both showed lesion of left frontal lobe. Over time, these symptoms became better but some still remained in last assessment. Accordingly, we suggest that a left frontal lesion cause Gerstmann's syndrome.

Keywords: Gerstmann's syndrome, Left frontal lobe, Left parietal lobe

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Fig. 1

Brain MRI of a 51 years old male. Brain MRI showed hemorrhagic transformation after acute left MCA infarction involved in left middle frontal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus and basal ganglia. (A) Diffuse weighted image. (B) T2 FLAIR.

Fig. 2

Brain MRI of a 29 years old female. Brain MRI showed an inflitrative glioma involved in left frontal lobe white matter, inferior frontal gyrus, pars opercularis, pars triangularis and insula. And there is hemorrage in left basal ganglia and subcortical area.

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