CASE REPORT
HEMIHYPOSMIA IN A CASE OF HEMIPARKINSONISM
 
More details
Hide details
1
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Neurology, Erlangen, Germany
 
2
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Erlangen, Germany
 
3
Technical University of Dresden, Taste and Smell Clinic, Germany
 
 
Online publication date: 2004-10-15
 
 
Publication date: 2004-10-15
 
 
Corresponding author
Josef G. Heckmann   

Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany Tel. +49-9131-8533001, Fax +49-9131-8534436
 
 
Eur J Gen Med 2004;1(4):72-73
 
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Olfactory dysfunction in Parkinson´s disease is becoming more relevant. We report on a 38- year old woman with right-sided hemiparkinsonism classified 1 degree of severity according to the Hoehn and Yahr scale. Despite not complaining of smell disturbances olfactory testing revealed pronounced hemihyposmia on the ipsilateral side of the marked decreased tracer uptake in the 123I-FP-CIT SPECT. To our knowledge pronounced hemihyposmia has been rarely described in patients with early signs and symptoms of Parkinson´s disease.
eISSN:2516-3507
Journals System - logo
Scroll to top