Excellent recovery of aphasia in a patient with complete injury of the arcuate fasciculus in the dominant hemisphere

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 401-404

  Kwon, Hyeok Gyu ^a   Jang, Sung Ho ^b  

^a Daegu University   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

aphasia; arcuate fasciculus; Diffusion tensor imaging; diffusion tensor tractography; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KOREAN WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

APHASIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84856863741     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2011-0718     Document Type: Article

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