Bulbar-onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with isolated agraphia

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-86

  Ichikawa, Hiroo ^a   Takahashi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Hieda, Soutaro ^a   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Bulbar onset; Frontal lobe lesion; Frontotemporal dementia; Isolated agraphia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRAPHIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONGUE; WRITING;

EID: 77749298654     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.81     Document Type: Article

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