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. 1972 Dec;35(6):877–880. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.35.6.877

Corneal reflex in hemisphere disease

R T Ross 1,2
PMCID: PMC494196  PMID: 4346025

Abstract

The contralateral corneal reflex may be absent in patients with a deep lesion of the parietal lobe. Frontal and temporal lobe lesions apparently do not interfere with this reflex.

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