How long is the recovery of global aphasia? twenty-five years of follow-up in a patient with left hemisphere stroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 871-875

  Smania, Nicola ^a   Gandolfi, Marialuisa ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^b   Girardi, Paolo ^a   Fiaschi, Antonio ^a   Girardi, Flavia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c C Santi Rehabilitation Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular disorders; language; outcome; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLOBAL APHASIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH REHABILITATION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

APHASIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 78649288925     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310368962     Document Type: Article

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