RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Agitated delirium caused by infarctions of the hippocampal formation and fusiform and lingual gyri
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1181
OP 1181
DO 10.1212/WNL.24.12.1181
VO 24
IS 12
A1 JOSE L. MEDINA
A1 FRANK A. RUBINO
A1 EMANUEL ROSS
YR 1974
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/24/12/1181.abstract
AB Article abstract Blindness and persistent agitated delirium developed abruptly in a 78-year-old man with an old left homonymous hemianopia. After a month, the delirium improved and he was left with a marked agitated dementia until his death a year and a half later. Any stimulus would evoke bursts of rage. He answered questions, shouting answers with an expressionless or angry manner. Postmortem examination demonstrated an encephalomalacia of the left hippcampus, parahippocampus, fusiform and lingual gyri, and pul-vinar. There was an old infarct involving the right superior temporal gyrus and inferior part of the supramarginal and angular gyri.