TY - JOUR
T1 - Language disorder in a right-hander after occlusion of the right anterior cerebral artery
AU - Brust, John C M
AU - Plank, Charles
AU - Burke, Allan
AU - Guobadia, Marie M I
AU - Healton, Edward B.
PY - 1982/5
Y1 - 1982/5
N2 - A right-handed woman developed left hemiparesis and a language disturbance. At autopsy, there was infarction in the territory of the right anterior cerebral artery, involving, among other structures, the supplementary motor area. This brain region has been considered to play a role in speech, but whether the language disorder that follows its destruction is truly aphasic is controversial. Our patient does not answer that question, but if her disturbed language is viewed as aphasic, she represents the fourth autopsy case of “crossed aphasia in a dextral” and the first, with or without autopsy, after right anterior cerebral artery occlusion.
AB - A right-handed woman developed left hemiparesis and a language disturbance. At autopsy, there was infarction in the territory of the right anterior cerebral artery, involving, among other structures, the supplementary motor area. This brain region has been considered to play a role in speech, but whether the language disorder that follows its destruction is truly aphasic is controversial. Our patient does not answer that question, but if her disturbed language is viewed as aphasic, she represents the fourth autopsy case of “crossed aphasia in a dextral” and the first, with or without autopsy, after right anterior cerebral artery occlusion.
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U2 - 10.1212/wnl.32.5.492
DO - 10.1212/wnl.32.5.492
M3 - Article
C2 - 7200206
AN - SCOPUS:0020065670
SN - 0028-3878
VL - 32
SP - 492
EP - 497
JO - Neurology
JF - Neurology
IS - 5
ER -