Pure apraxic agraphia with abnormal writing stroke sequences: Report of a Japanese patient with a left superior parietal haemorrhage

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-237

  Otsuki, Mika ^a   Soma, Yoshiaki ^b   Arai, Toshiko ^c   Otsuka, Atsuko ^c   Tsuji, Shoji ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Takeda General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Left superior parietal lobule; Pure apraxic agraphia; Writing stroke sequences

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRAPHIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRITING;

EID: 0032934809     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.66.2.233     Document Type: Article

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