RESUMEN

This case attempts to explicit the importance of clinical examination in the differential diagnosis of two similar clinical entities namely astereognosia and stereoanesthesia. The patient presented below involves a multiple sclerosis patient whose symptoms were considered at first to be a case of astereognosia since she mainly complained of an inability to recognize and name the form and nature of objects by touch. However, a thorough clinical examination and the results of neurophysiological and neuroimaging testing demonstrated that it involved a case of stereoanesthesia due to a demyelinating lesion at the cervical region of the spinal cord.

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Agnosia/diagnóstico , Trastornos de la Sensación/diagnóstico , Tacto/fisiología , Adulto , Femenino , Humanos , Vibración