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Carolyn Biglow

On Wednesday, December 30, 2020, Harman, Susan E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have another one of those search requests that probably doesn't have a
> really good answer.
>
> One of our medical students was given the following article: Kim N. Anton
> syndrome as a result of MS exacerbation. Neurol Clin Pract 2017
> Apr;7(2):e19-e22.
>
> Anton(s) syndrome or visual anosognosia (lack of awareness and denial of
> blindness) is apparently very rare.  According to the articles "only 28
> cases have been published between 1965 and 2016."  I'm assuming the author
> found this information by doing a literature search when she was writing up
> her case report.
>
> You guessed it, the student's attending wants to know if there have been
> other case reports since this article and, if so, how many.  Most of the
> general articles I've found on Anton syndrome since 2017 repeat this same
> statement about 28 cases.  The article itself only has a few related
> articles, mainly letters commenting on it.  When I try 'find similar' in
> Ovid the search goes off into the MS aspect.  Interestingly, the similar
> function in PubMed (which I'm not as familiar with) returns more citations,
> but they don't seem particularly relevant either.  Anton syndrome is
> similar to Anton-Babinski syndrome and cortical blindness, but apparently
> not quite the same.
>
> I did a Medline search with the textwords and limited to Case Reports and
> the last 5 years.  This gave me 28 articles.  I did a few other more
> general searches in Medline and CINAHL.  UpToDate and several Google
> searches didn't help much.  The ophthalmology textbooks we have in print
> and online aren't that helpful.  I could go back and search visual
> anosognosia to see if that brings up any different articles.
>
> It seems to me the most fruitful tactic would be to take citations found
> by searching anton$ and case reports and just look through them.  That
> would be a pain, but I'm not sure what else to suggest.  I could try
> emailing the author of the original article, but I'm not sure how much of a
> response I'd get.
>
> I'm still the in holiday doldrums, so if any of you have suggestions on a
> better way to look for this information, please let me know.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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