Neurology · Neurology / Behavioral neurology; Neuro-ophthalmology
Posterior cortical atrophy
also: Benson syndrome; PCA
Neurodegenerative syndrome with progressive visual-spatial and perceptual dysfunction.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Behavioral neurology; Neuro-ophthalmology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, somewhat more common in women; Children: no, onset usually 50–65
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Benson syndrome; PCA
Etiology & mechanism
Most often Alzheimer pathology in occipito-parietal cortex.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (6)
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