Damage to the upper portion of area 19 and the deep white matter in the left inferior parietal lobe, including the superior longitudinal fasciculus, results in alexia with agraphia

European Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 224-229

  Shinoura, Nobusada ^a   Onodera, Toshiyuki ^b   Kurokawa, Kotoyo ^b   Tsukada, Masanobu ^a   Yamada, Ryozi ^a   Tabei, Yusuke ^a   Koizumi, Tomoyuki ^a   Yagi, Kazuo ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agraphia; Alexia; Diffusion tensor imaging; Inferior parietal lobe; Superior longitudinal fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGRAPHIA; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77956081941     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318175     Document Type: Article

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