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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Sci. 2016 May 13;367:26–31. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.05.020

Table 4.

Frequency of posterior symptoms and pairwise comparison in each group.

Patient group tAD PCA1 PCA2 Pairwise comparison




PCA2 vs PCA1
PCA2 vs tAD
N 18 16 5 pa pa
Ocular apraxia 1 (5%) 5 (31%) 0 0.21 0.78
Optic ataxia 0 1 (6%) 0 0.76
Simultanagnosia 1 (5%) 8 (50%) 0 0.06 0.78
Acalculia 5 (27%) 11 (68%) 3 (60%) 0.55 0.26
Agraphia 2 (11%) 12 (75%) 1 (20%) 0.04 0.57
Left-Right disorientation 3 (16%) 8 (50%) 2 (40%) 0.55 0.49
Finger agnosia 0 3 (18%) 1 (20%) 0.71 0.21
Alexia 3 (16%) 9 (56%) 2 (40%) 0.45 0.33
Spatial disorientation 7 (38%) 13 (81%) 1 (20%) 0.02 0.41
Dressing apraxia 5 (27%) 9 (56%) 2 (40%) 0.45 0.49
Constructive apraxia 12 (66%) 14 (87%) 3 (60%) 0.22 0.58
Visual agnosia 1 (5%) 6 (33%) 0 0.14 0.78

Patients with PCA2 show the second highest percentage (after PCA1) of individuals showing acalculia, alexia, dressing apraxia and visuospatial difficulties at the assessment time. However, they do not show any of the components of Balint's syndrome or visual agnosia.

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Fisher exact test.