Occipital lobe syndrome
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It is characterized by visual symptoms such as:
- homonymous hemianopsia',
- cortical blindness with a bilateral lesion in the area of fissura calcarina;[1] optokinetic nystagmus is gone, the photoreaction is preserved[2]
- phosphenes or visual pseudohallucinations arise from an irritating lesion,
- alexia, visual agnosia in lesions of the speech-dominant hemisphere. [1].
Among the most common causes are thrombosis or embolism in the area of the aa. cerebri posteriores.[2]
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