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Parietal lobe tumor

Types

see Parietal lobe glioma.

see Parietal lobe metastases.

Clinical features

The symptoms of tumors in the parietal lobe include:

Loss of sensation in part of the body

Sensory or motor neglect – e.g. a person with right-sided sensory neglect will not respond to a sound from the right, gesturing by someone standing on their right or a touch to the right side of the body.

They will respond normally to these stimuli on the left side.

Difficulty speaking or understanding speech

Alexia and agraphia are disorders common to the left inferior parietal lobule, including the angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus.

Inability to recognize objects by touch.


Non-dominant parietal lobe lesions: topographic memory loss, anosognosia and dressing apraxia