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Bilateral anterior opercular syndrome: Localizing value of SPECT and MRI

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Bilateral anterior opercular syndrome is clinically characterized by facio-pharyngo-glossomasticatory diplegia due to bilateral opercular lesions. Reported cases of the syndrome have been relatively rare probably because of difficulty in determining opercular damage on clinical symptoms alone. We report a case of this syndrome in whom bilateral opercular damage could be detected not by CT, but suggested by SPECT, and confirmed by MR imaging.

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Tohgi, H., Sano, M., Takahashi, S. et al. Bilateral anterior opercular syndrome: Localizing value of SPECT and MRI. Neuroradiology 30, 579–581 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339707

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