Progressive ventral posterior cortical degeneration presenting as alexia for music and words

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 657-659

  Beversdorf, David Q ^b   Heilman, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031919625     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.3.657     Document Type: Article

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