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Progressive anomia revisited: focal degeneration associated with progranulin gene mutation.
Neurocase - 1 Oct 2007
Snowden Julie S, Pickering-Brown Stuart M, Du Plessis Daniel, Mackenzie Ian R A, Varma Anoop, Mann David M A, Neary David
Abstract excerpt
In 2003 we reported a case study of a patient, Newton who presented with a progressive circumscribed anomia in association with focal left hemisphere atrophy. Remarkably, he could spell aloud the names of objects that he could not name, indicating dissociated access to phonology and orthography. We now present follow-up clinical data, post-mortem histopathological findings, and results of molecular genetic...
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