Cortical auditory disorder caused by bilateral strategic cerebral bleedings. Analysis of two cases

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-165

  Szirmai, Imre ^a   Farsang, Marianna ^a   Csüri, Maria ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Auditory agnosia; Bilateral temporal haemorrhages; Cortical deafness; Word deafness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL AUDITORY DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0037964051     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00597-7     Document Type: Article

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