2011 Volume 8 Pages 59-63
We report a patient who exhibited specific memory disturbance due to traumatic head injury. After an unexpected head injury playing a handball game, 17 year-male patient was unable to recall the episodic memory, while he maintained the memory for 3-4 days. Although several neurological examinations have failed to elucidate the legions, FDG-PET successfully cleared the decreased metabolism in the right basal temporal and parietal regions. Through cognitive memory rehabilitation, his memory disturbance has remarkably improved, associated with improvement in the right temporal-parietal metabolism measured by FDG-PET. There are a large number of amnesic patients due to sport injury, incidentally occurred during training and game. Further studies and establishment of treatment are highly needed.
