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20798952

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-2-10
pubmed:abstractText
Pure alexia is severe difficulty in reading and understanding written language but with normal oral language and writing abilities. We report a patient with pure alexia caused by two different infarct lesions in the left lateral thalamus and the left splenium of the corpus callosum. A 56-year-old right-handed man was admitted to hospital with right homonymous hemianopia associated with pure alexia. He could write kana characters but not kanji. His cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed two different infarct lesions in the left optic radiation and the left splenium of the corpus callosum. Magnetic resonance angiography showed mild stenosis at the origin of the right vertebral artery and stenosis of the left distal posterior cerebral artery. The mechanism of developing pure alexia can be simply explained by disconnection. We assumed that agraphia of kanji was caused by the effect of ischemia and edema following transient obstruction in branches from the distal posterior cerebral artery.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1432-1459
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
258
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
223-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Pure alexia caused by separate lesions of the splenium and optic radiation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, 1397-1 Yamane, Hidaka, Saitama, 350-1298, Japan. maeshima@saitama-med.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports