I can hear you yet cannot comprehend: A case of pure word deafness

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-55

  Wirkowski, Ela ^a,b   Echausse, Nancy ^a   Overby, Chris ^a   Ortiz, Orlando ^a   Radler, Linda ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Aphasia; Auditory deficit; Bilateral; Deafness; Pure word; Temporal lobe pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; APHASIA; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN INJURIES; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 31144444783     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2005.03.016     Document Type: Article

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