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Descriptor English: Gerstmann Syndrome
Descriptor Spanish: Síndrome de Gerstmann
Descriptor síndrome de Gerstmann
Entry term(s) dedo-agnosia-izquierdo-derecho-confusión-acalculia-agrafía
síndrome de Gerstmann del desarrollo
Scope note: Trastorno cognitivo caracterizado por la tétrada de agnosia de los dedos, disgrafia, DISCALCULIA y desorientación derecha-izquierda. El síndrome puede ser congénito o adquirido. El síndrome de Gerstmann adquirido se asocia con lesiones en el LÓBULO PARIETAL dominante (generalmente el izquierdo) que afectan a la circunvolución angular o la sustancia blanca que lo rodea. (Traducción libre del original: Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p457)
Descriptor Portuguese: Síndrome de Gerstmann
Descriptor French: Syndrome de Gerstmann
Entry term(s): Acquired Gerstmann Syndrome
Acquired Gerstmann's Syndrome
Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome
Developmental Gerstmann's Syndrome
Developmental Gerstmanns Syndrome
Finger-Agnosia-Left-Right-Confusion-Acalculia-Agraphia
Finger-Agnosia-Left-Right-Confusion-Acalculia-Agraphias
Gerstmann Badal Syndrome
Gerstmann Syndrome 2
Gerstmann Syndrome, Acquired
Gerstmann Syndrome, Developmental
Gerstmann's Syndrome
Gerstmann's Syndrome, Acquired
Gerstmann's Syndrome, Developmental
Gerstmann, Syndrome de
Gerstmann-Badal Syndrome
Syndrome de Gerstmann
Syndrome, Acquired Gerstmann
Syndrome, Acquired Gerstmann's
Syndrome, Developmental Gerstmann
Syndrome, Gerstmann
Syndrome, Gerstmann-Badal
de Gerstmann, Syndrome
Tree number(s): C10.597.606.762.100.300
C23.888.592.604.764.100.300
F01.700.750.100.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005862
Scope note: A disorder of cognition characterized by the tetrad of finger agnosia, dysgraphia, DYSCALCULIA, and right-left disorientation. The syndrome may be developmental or acquired. Acquired Gerstmann syndrome is associated with lesions in the dominant (usually left) PARIETAL LOBE which involve the angular gyrus or subjacent white matter. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p457)
Annotation: do not confuse with GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER SYNDROME, a prion disease
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2000; see Gerstmann's Syndrome 1966-1999
History Note: 2000(1966)
Related: Dyscalculia MeSH
DeCS ID: 29398
Unique ID: D005862
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2000/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2011/06/24
Gerstmann Syndrome - Preferred
Concept UI M0009211
Scope note A disorder of cognition characterized by the tetrad of finger agnosia, dysgraphia, DYSCALCULIA, and right-left disorientation. The syndrome may be developmental or acquired. Acquired Gerstmann syndrome is associated with lesions in the dominant (usually left) PARIETAL LOBE which involve the angular gyrus or subjacent white matter. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p457)
Preferred term Gerstmann Syndrome
Entry term(s) Finger-Agnosia-Left-Right-Confusion-Acalculia-Agraphia
Finger-Agnosia-Left-Right-Confusion-Acalculia-Agraphias
Gerstmann Badal Syndrome
Gerstmann's Syndrome
Gerstmann, Syndrome de
Gerstmann-Badal Syndrome
Syndrome de Gerstmann
Syndrome, Gerstmann
Syndrome, Gerstmann-Badal
de Gerstmann, Syndrome
Developmental Gerstmann's Syndrome - Narrower
Concept UI M0337453
Preferred term Developmental Gerstmann's Syndrome
Entry term(s) Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome
Developmental Gerstmanns Syndrome
Gerstmann Syndrome, Developmental
Gerstmann's Syndrome, Developmental
Syndrome, Developmental Gerstmann
Gerstmann Syndrome 2 - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0545514
Preferred term Gerstmann Syndrome 2
Acquired Gerstmann Syndrome - Narrower
Concept UI M0337454
Preferred term Acquired Gerstmann Syndrome
Entry term(s) Acquired Gerstmann's Syndrome
Gerstmann Syndrome, Acquired
Gerstmann's Syndrome, Acquired
Syndrome, Acquired Gerstmann
Syndrome, Acquired Gerstmann's



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