The following site has a lot of information on Antons syndrome including research articles. https://www.malacards.org/card/antons_syndrome#clinical_features Thank you, Aditi Aditi Bandyopadhyay Professor/Science Librarian Adelphi University Libraries [log in to unmask] / adelphi.edu 516.877.4166 [image: Adelphi University] Swirbul Library One South Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:40 PM Carolyn Biglow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Have you considered searching these resources? > > - Orphanet or other rare disease databases > - Scopus > - Embase > - TRIP database > > 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. > > > > > > Susan E. Harman, MSLS > > Medical Staff Library > > University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus > > 827 Linden St. > > Baltimore, Md. 21201 > > 410-225-8383 > > Fax 410-225-8119 > > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > > > > > This e-mail and any accompanying attachments may be privileged, > > confidential, contain protected health information about an identified > > patient or be otherwise protected from disclosure. State and federal law > > protect the confidentiality of this information. If the reader of this > > message is not the intended recipient; you are prohibited from using, > > disclosing, reproducing or distributing this information; you should > > immediately notify the sender by telephone or e-mail and delete this > e-mail. > > >