Erschienen in:
01.10.2013 | Letter to the Editor
Dysgraphia due to anterior choroidal artery territory infarction: a case report
verfasst von:
S. Maeshima, A. Osawa, H. Nagoya, H. Takeda, N. Tanahashi
Erschienen in:
Neurological Sciences
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Ausgabe 10/2013
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Excerpt
The anterior choroidal artery (AChA), which normally originates from the internal carotid artery and rarely from the middle cerebral artery, supplies a wide variety of structures, including the lateral thalamus and posterior internal capsule [
1]. The most common neurological deficits associated with infarcts in the AChA region are hemiplegia, hemisensory loss, and homonymous hemianopsia, with neuropsychological and perceptual deficits occurring occasionally [
2,
3]. Right-sided lesions could result in spatial neglect, whereas left-sided lesions could be the source of aphasia, which most often involves transcortical aphasia, constructive apraxia, and amnesic syndrome. However, dysgraphia after recovery from aphasia has rarely been reported. Here, we report a case of a patient with dysgraphia due to an AChA-region infarction. …
