[A case of jargon aphasia--a clinicopathological study].
An autopsied case of jargon aphasia by multiple cerebral infarction was reported. A 75-year-old right-handed woman developed a Wernicke's aphasia with the first attack of cerebral infarction in the left hemisphere in July 1980. With the second attack of infarction in October 1980, she developed a neologistic and semantic jargon aphasia, in which her speech consisted of neologisms, literal paraphasias, empty phrases and so-called "misused words". CT-findings showed two low density areas; one was in the left hemisphere and the other in the posterior region of the right hemisphere. Her jargon aphasia persisted for about one year. In November 1981, she suffered a third attack of infarction and developed an apallic syndrome. Neuropathological examination confirmed that the lesion of the right hemisphere played a decisive role in the outbreak of jargon aphasia in this case.
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