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Pötzl’s syndrome

Pötzl’s syndrome

a form of pure alexia associated with visual field defects and disturbances of the color sense. The syndrome is believed to be the result of a lesion in the medullary layer of the lingual gyrus of the dominant hemisphere of the brain, with damage to the corpus callosum. [Otto Pötzl]

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