Bristowe Syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
C71.9	Malignant neoplasm of the brain, unspecified
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Bristowe syndrome is a neurological - psychiatric clinical picture in the presence of a tumor in the corpus callosum .

The name refers to the author of the first description from 1884 by the English doctor John Syer B. Bristowe (1827–1895).

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

• declining ability to concentrate , personality disorders , psychoses
• decreased hearing
• contralateral forced grasping ( grasping reflexes )
• progressing to the picture of hemiplegia
• Left hand apraxia

See also

• Alien hand syndrome

literature

• AL Livianos, AR Gonzalez: La Psiquiatria Y Sus Nombres: Diccionario De Eponimos . Editorial Medica Panamericana Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-84-7903-541-9 .

Web links

• Right diagnosis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
2. ^ J. Bristowe: Cases of tumor of the corpus callosum . In: Brain , Volume 7, 1884, pp. 315-333

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