Agrammatic primary progressive aphasia in two dextral patients with right hemispheric involvement

作者：Jeong Eun Hye; Lee Yong Joo; Kwon Miseon; Kim Jae Seung; Na Duk L; Lee Jae Hong^*

来源：Neurocase, 2014, 20(1): 46-52.

DOI：10.1080/13554794.2012.732084

• Primary progressive aphasia
• Progressive nonfluent aphasia
• Agrammatism
• Crossed aphasia
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Positron emission tomography

Agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (PPA-G) has been known to be associated with focal brain atrophy involving the left posterior frontal and anterior insular regions. However, aphasia can also rarely result from right hemispheric lesions in right-handed patients, so-called crossed aphasia in dextrals (CAD). We report two right-handed patients with PPA-G whose 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) showed hypometabolism predominantly in the right hemisphere, implicating crossed PPA-G.

• 出版日期2014-1-2