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J Korean Neurol Assoc. 1995;13(2):353-361.
- A case of Pure Word Deafness
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Byung Jo Kim, M.D., Min Kyu Park M.D., Kun Woo Park, M.D., Dae Hie Lee, M.D.
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Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Korea university
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김병조, 박민규, 박건우, 이대희
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고려대학교 신경과
- Abstract
- Pure word deafness is a cluucal syndrome included among the aphasias and is marked by complete deafness of sudden onset with conserved ability to understand and read the written word and with no speech disorders. We report the case of 55year-old female in whom pure word deafness developed after episode of stroke.
Neuroimaging procedures, that is : computed tomography scan and MRI, revealed the
presence of hemorrhagic lesion in right putamen, mainly the white matter of the
temporal and parietal lobes and large open schizencephaly in left temporoparietal area.
Neurophysiological investigations (electroencephalogram and brainstem auditory evoked
potentials) were also studied.
It is proposed that pure word deafness which might be caused by a impairment of the
language function possibly transferred to the nondominant, right hemisphere due to
congenital dominant hemisphere lesion.
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