Pure alexia: Clinical-pathologic evidence for a lateralized visual language association cortex

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 328-331

  Beversdorf, D Q ^a   Ratcliffe, N R ^b   Rhodes, C H ^b   Reeves, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexia; Cerebral localization; Fusiform gyrus; Language; Lingular gyrus; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030729778     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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