Objective: To analyze clinical features of patients with Gerstmann syndrome (GS).
Methods: We retrospectively analysed the clinical manifestations of 7 patients (6 men and 1 woman) with GS secondary to cerebral vascular diseases and reviewed the literatures.
Results: The age ranged from 51 to 70 years with a mean of 70 years. They all had sudden onset and the tetrad of GS-finger agnosia, left-right disorientation, agraphia and acalculia, 3 patients accompanied by incomplete aphasia, 3 by anomic aphasia, 2 by alexia and 1 by constructional apraxia. Cranial computed tomographic scan showed low-density focus of the left parietal lobe in 6 cases and high-density focus of the left parietal lobe in 1 case.
Conclusion: GS has the high value in localization and the lesion is mainly localized to angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere.
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