Gerstmann syndrome

Gerstmann syndrome
a combination of finger agnosia, right-left disorientation, agraphia, acalculia, and often constructional apraxia; it was formerly attributed to a lesion in the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere, but now that etiology is in doubt.

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