Pure word deafness and pure anarthria in a patient with frontotemporal dementia

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 473-475

  Iizuka, O ^a   Suzuki, K ^a   Endo, K ^b   Fujii, T ^a   Mori, E ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Pure anarthria; Pure word deafness

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE ANARTHRIA; PURE WORD DEAFNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 33947591256     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2007.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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