Posterior kortikal atrofi, ağırlıklı olarak paryetal ve oksipital alanların etkilendiği ve başlangıçta vizüospasyal bulguların gözlendiği nadir görülen bir demans sendromudur. İlk kez 1988’de Benson ve arkadaşları tarafından tanımlanmış olup Benson sendromu olarak da anılır. Ana klinik bulguları arasında; Gerstman sendromu, Balint sendromu ve ileri dönemde başlayan bellek bozuklukları yer alır. PKA’da görsel uzamsal yeteneklerin kaybı, amnestik durumdan daha ön plandadır, hastalığın ilerlemesiyle demans gelişir. Bu yazıda klinik, muayene ve görüntüleme teknikleri sonrası PKA tanısı almış olgu, nadir görülen bir sendrom olması nedeniyle sunulmuştur
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Caine D. Posterior cortical atrophy: a review of the literature. Neurocase 2004;10:382-5.
Levine DN, Lee JM, Fisher CM. The visual variant of Alzheiımer’s disease: a clinicopathologic case study. Neurology 1993; 43:305-13.
Tang-Wai DF, Graff-Radford NR, Boove BF et al. Clinical, genetic, and neuropathologic characteristics of posterior cortical atrophy. Neurology 2004 12;63:1168-74.
Leonardo Chelazzi and maurizio Corbetta.Cortical mechanisms of visospatial attention in the primate brain. The New Cognitive Neurosciences. (Editory in chief. Michael S. Gazzaniga) Second edition. Massachusetts of Technology. USA. 2000.681.
Ennio De Renzi. Visuospatial and constructional disorders. Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology (Editors, Todd E. Feinberg, M.D, Martha J. Farah, Ph,D) MacGraw-Hill Companies. USA. Copyright 1997,297-304
Liu CJ, McDowd J, Lin KC. Visuospatial inattention and daily life performance in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Am J Occup Ther. Kansas 2004; 58:202-10.14
Rafal RD. Balint Syndrome. Feinberg TE, Farah MJ, editörler. Behavioral Neyrology and Neuropsychology içinde. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1997; s.337-56.
Schmidtke K, Hull M, Talazko J. Posterior cortical atrophy: variant of Alzheimer's disease? A case series with PET findings. J Neurol 2005;252:27-35.
Ross SJ, Graham N, Stuart-Green L, Prins M, Xuereb J, Patterson K, et al. Progressive biparietal atrophy: an atypical presentation of Alzheimer’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996;61:388–95.
Lehmann M, Barnes J, Ridgway GR, Wattam-Bell J, Warrington EK, Fox NC, et al. Basic visual function and cortical thickness patterns in posterior cortical atrophy. Cereb Cortex 2011;21:2122–32.