ALEXIA WITHOUT AGRAPHIA IN TUMEFACTIVE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: A CASE REPOR
Abstract
Background Alexia without agraphia is a rare deficit in which the flow of visual input from the right hemisphere is prevented from entering the language network of the left hemisphere. The cause for the syndrome is most commonly an infarction in the posterior cerebral artery region. Results A 47-year-old female patient presented with an acute onset of a failure to understand written text and a headache. Clinical examination revealed right homonymous hemianopsia and severe cognitive deficits. MRI with contrast revealed a 4 × 7 cm large periventricular parieto-temporal lesion in the deep white matter of the left hemisphere, which was pathohistologically diagnosed as MS. Conclusions Alexia without agraphia is reported for the first time due to the tumefactive variant of MS. Described complex cognitive deficit was the initial sign of multiple sclerosis.Downloads
The Author transfers to the Publisher (Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal) all economic copyrights following form Article 22 of the Slovene Copyright and Related Rights Act (ZASP), including the right of reproduction, the right of distribution, the rental right, the right of public performance, the right of public transmission, the right of public communication by means of phonograms and videograms, the right of public presentation, the right of broadcasting, the right of rebroadcasting, the right of secondary broadcasting, the right of communication to the public, the right of transformation, the right of audiovisual adaptation and all other rights of the author according to ZASP.
The aforementioned rights are transferred non-exclusively, for an unlimited number of editions, for the term of the statutory
The Author can make use of his work himself or transfer subjective rights to others only after 3 months from date of first publishing in the journal Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal.
The Publisher (Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal) has the right to transfer the rights, acquired parties without explicit consent of the Author.
The Author consents that the Article be published under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 (attribution-non-commercial) or comparable licence.
