Primary progressive aphasia presenting as conduction aphasia
| Autor: | Yasuo Nozaki, Masayuki Sasaki, Seishi Hashiguchi, Makiko Uchida, Kenji Hachisuka |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Aphasiology Neurological disorder Middle Aged Audiology medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging behavioral disciplines and activities Lateralization of brain function Primary progressive aphasia Aphasia Primary Progressive Neurology Conduction aphasia Aphasia medicine Humans Dementia Female Language disorder Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Psychology Aphasia Conduction Neuroscience Tomography Emission-Computed |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 167:137-141 |
| ISSN: | 0022-510X |
| Popis: | We report a case of a woman with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) who presented with conduction aphasia. A 60-year-old, right-handed, Japanese female suffering from progressive aphasia had difficulty in repeating words and phrases. She displayed phonemic paraphasias but had preserved comprehension and had no cognitive or behavior disorder for more than 6 years after the onset of the condition. She was able to continue to work successfully and to perform all her normal daily activities. T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging revealed minute dilatation of the left inferior horn and sulci in the left hemisphere, and positron emission tomography revealed mild hypometabolism in the left supramarginal gyrus and its surrounding areas. Therefore, she was diagnosed as suffering from PPA presenting as conduction aphasia. We believe that the progressive conduction aphasia of the patient belongs to one of the fluent forms of PPA, and the ability to continue normal work along with the clinical portrayal of preserved memory and cognition skills may be features of a form of PPA presenting as conduction aphasia. |
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