Slowly progressive anarthria with late anterior opercular syndrome: A variant form of frontal cortical atrophy syndromes

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 44-58

  Broussolle, Emmanuel ^a   Bakchine, Serge ^b   Tommasi, Michel ^a   Laurent, Bernard ^c   Bazin, Bertrand ^d   Cinotti, Luc ^a   Cohen, Laurent ^b   Chazot, Guy ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b Fed de Neurol Hop de la S   (France)

^c SERVICE DE NEUROLOGIE   (France)

^d SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

Foix Chavany Marie syndrome; lobar atrophy; opercular syndrome; primary progressive aphasia; progressive anarthria; speech apraxia

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; APRAXIAS; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARESIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030466497     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(96)00096-2     Document Type: Article

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