Pure progressive aphemia.
Open Access
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (8) , 923-924
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.56.8.923
Abstract
Aphemia, also called anarthria or severe apraxia of speech, is a rare disorder of speech production usually resulting from vascular lesions affecting the inferior premotor cortex of the left hemisphere. A patient presenting with aphemia as the sole manifestation of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is reported.Keywords
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