A 70 Year Old Man with Palinopsia and Visual Field Defect

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Identifier walsh_1988_s3_c6
Title A 70 Year Old Man with Palinopsia and Visual Field Defect
Creator Valerie A. Purvin, MD, Indiana University
Subject Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome; Afterimage; Hemianopsia; Scotoma; Hallucinations
History A 70-year old male with visual disturbances and hallucinations over a 4-week period.
Pathology Neuronal degeneration; Glial proliferation and spongiform change
Disease/Diagnosis Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Clinical VA: 20/50 OU; Left homonymous hemianopic scotoma
Neuroimaging CT
Date 1988-05-07
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Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 20th Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting
Relation is Part of Case 6, Session 3, Walsh Session, NANOS 1988
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association. NANOS Executive Office 5841 Cedar Lake Road, Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Rights Management Copyright 2008. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s68918n9
Contributor Primary Purvin, Valerie
Contributor Secondary Bonnin, Jose; Goodman, Julius
Setname ehsl_novel_fbw
ID 178165
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68918n9