Acute auditory agnosia as the presenting hearing disorder in MELAS

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 459-462

  Miceli, Gabriele ^a   Conti, Guido ^b   Cianfoni, Alessandro ^b   Di Giacopo, Raffaella ^b   Zampetti, Patrizia ^c   Servidei, Serenella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory agnosia; Bilateral and symmetric stroke like episodes; Hearing loss; MELAS syndrome; Temporal lobes

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GUANOSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; STEROID; UBIDECARENONE;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIANOPIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MELAS SYNDROME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STROKE;

EID: 58149092011     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-008-1028-9     Document Type: Article

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