Nonfluent Crossed Aphasia after Right Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction: A case report.
- Author:
Hyuck Jae RHO
1
;
Yong Wook KIM
;
Chang il PARK
;
Jong Bum PARK
;
Jae Hoon JANG
Author Information
1. Department and Research Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea. ywkim1@yuhs.ac
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Nonfluent crossed aphasia
- MeSH:
Agnosia;
Agraphia;
Aphasia*;
Apraxias;
Brain;
Cerebral Infarction;
Comprehension;
Dyscalculia;
Hand;
Humans;
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery*;
Middle Aged
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
2007;31(6):772-775
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Crossed aphasia refers to language disturbance induced by unilateral right hemisphere (non-language dominant) injury in right-handed people who had no previous history of brain damage. Crossed aphasia occurs in less than 2 percent who developed a aphasia. We report a case of a 49-year-old right handed man with language disturbance after right middle cerebral infarction. He showed nonfluent crossed aphasia with Gerstman syndrome such as right-left disorientation, finger agnosia, acalculia and agraphia, but not with apraxia and neglect. At 7 weeks after onset, language function indicated improvement in spontaneous speech and at 19 weeks after onset, improvement in spontaneous speech, comprehension, repetition, naming and reading.
