Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis presented with Alexia of Kanji and word meaning aphasia

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 903-907

  Iroi, Atsuko ^a   Okuma, Yasuyuki ^a   Fukae, Jiro ^a   Fujishima, Kenji ^a   Goto, Keigo ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alexia of kanji; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal dementia; Higher cerebral function; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; AMNESIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGRESSIVE BULBAR PALSY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; TONGUE DISEASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036815476     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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