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Neurological picture
Simultanagnosia in posterior cortical atrophy
  1. S J Yoon1,
  2. J M Park2,
  3. D L Na2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, Masan Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Masan, Korea
  2. 2Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr D L Na, Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 ILwon-dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul, 135–710 Korea;
    dukna{at}smc.samsung.co.kr

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.72.2.269

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