Alexia without agraphia due to a cerebral lesion in a right-handed man;Alexia sin agrafia por lesion occipital derecha en varon diestro. Segregacion de la lateralizacion hemisferica manual y del lenguaje en un paciente diestro

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 243-245

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^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alexia without agraphia; Left occipital lesion; Right handed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; AGED; AGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGRAPHIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DYSLEXIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033557067     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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