Case Report: 84 year-old woman with alien hand syndrome [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Background: Alien hand syndrome [AHS] is a rare and ill-defined neurological disorder.It produces complex, goal-directed motion of one hand that is involuntarily instigated.This syndrome characteristically arises after brain trauma, brain surgery, stroke or encephalitis.We describe a case of AHS in a patient who had a previous episode of subarachno