J F Dalmás, C Mandilaharsu
The authors report the case of a 42 years-old electrician man, with an 8 months progressive manual difficulties in his specific job, with a complete disability for the last 2 months. These symptoms were associated with anemia, deterioration of the general condition, and slight fever. Three days after the first neuropsychological examination he, suddenly, developed a left hemiparesis. Laboratory investigations confirmed the occurrence of a systemic lupus erythematosus. The neuropsychological examination showed: normal intellectual level with slight memory deficit; severe constructional and ideomotor apraxia; gaze ataxia; optical ataxia; hemisomatoagnosia, anosognosia, and autotopagnosia; agraphia...
1980: Acta Neurológica Latinoamericana