agraphia/neoplasms

Alexia without agraphia is a rare disconnection syndrome characterized by the loss of reading ability with retention of writing and verbal comprehension. We report a patient who developed alexia without agraphia after undergoing a biopsy for a malignant glioma involving the left thalamus. A

A case of bilateral agraphia produced by a left parietal glioma is described in a 49 year-old right-handed woman. Hypothesis of a pure agraphia, etiology and non-frontal localisation of tumor are discussed. This agraphia is associated to a right astereognosia; neither functional nor behavioral

Alexia without agraphia occurred in a 41-year-old man suffering from a left occipital brain tumor. The syndrome disappeared following excision of the neoplasm.

BACKGROUND Controversy still exists about neural basis underlying writing and its relation with the sites subserving oral language. Our objective is to study functional areas involved in writing network, based on the observations of different postoperative writing disorders in a population of

BACKGROUND Orbitofrontal abnormalities are associated with poor impulse control, altered sexual behavior, and sociopathy. OBJECTIVE To describe a patient with acquired pedophilia and a right orbitofrontal tumor who was unable to inhibit sexual urges despite preserved moral knowledge. METHODS Case

We reported a male who showed typing disorders after resection of a tumor in the left posterior superior and middle frontal gyri. He was a right-handed Japanese in his 50s and was good at touch typing as a system engineer. After the tumor resection, he presented typing errors and slightly impaired

Oral and written speech centers are commonly attributed to the dominant hemisphere, while body, spatial and facial recognition to the non-dominant. This paper examines the case of a 63 year old entirely right-handed male who presents alexia, agraphia, difficulties in spelling and word-finding

Repetition, reading, confrontation naming, and oral and written spelling were studied in a 57 year-old man with a left hemisphere tumour. These tasks were repeated over a period of two weeks when the patient was being treated for brain oedema prior and subsequent to neurosurgical intervention. In

A Developmental Gerstmann syndrome in a 7 years-old-boy with hyperactivity, short attention span, acalculia, agraphia, right-left confusion, finger agnosia and constructional apraxia is reported. An initial trial with methylphenidate was done with good improvement regarding hyperactivity, attention

This typical case of alexia without agraphia, caused by an astrocytoma, is the first recorded case in the literature of alexia without agraphia with a right homonymous hemianopia caused by a tumor. This case differs from previously reported cases of the syndrome by its fluctuating clinical course

Abstract A 69-year-old right-handed man developed alexia with agraphia after resection of a brain tumor in the left parietal lobe. After the operation, neurological examination revealed right lower quadrantanopia, mild paresis and sensory disturbance on the right side. He showed marked alexia with

A 39-year-old male developed a right homonymous hemianopsia and alexia without agraphia following emergency surgery for hemorrhage into a left frontal tumor. A computerized tomographic (CT) scan demonstrated low density areas in the left frontal region and in the territory of the left posterior