"Blindness, Cortical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to bilateral OCCIPITAL LOBE (i.e., VISUAL CORTEX) damage or dysfunction. Anton syndrome is characterized by the psychic denial of true, organic cortical blindness. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p460)
Descriptor ID |
D019575
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MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.751.941.162.250 C11.966.075.250 C23.888.592.763.941.162.250
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Concept/Terms |
Anton Syndrome- Anton Syndrome
- Syndrome, Anton
- Transient Anton's Syndrome
- Anton's Syndrome, Transient
- Syndrome, Transient Anton's
- Transient Anton Syndrome
- Transient Antons Syndrome
- Psychic Denial of Blindness
- Reversible Cortical Blindness
- Blindness, Reversible Cortical
- Blindnesses, Reversible Cortical
- Cortical Blindness, Reversible
- Cortical Blindnesses, Reversible
- Reversible Cortical Blindnesses
- Anton's Syndrome
- Antons Syndrome
- Syndrome, Anton's
- Anton-Babinski Syndrome
- Anton Babinski Syndrome
- Syndrome, Anton-Babinski
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Saigal G, Bhatia R, Bhatia S, Wakhloo AK. MR findings of cortical blindness following cerebral angiography: is this entity related to posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy? AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2004 Feb; 25(2):252-6.