title: [Pure agraphia. Apropos of 2 cases].
abstract: Pure agraphia is a disorder of written language without aphasia, alexia or apraxia. Its existence has long been disputed. We report 2 cases due to a left parietal hematoma. In the first patient, with a deep precuneate lesion, agraphia included disorders in handwriting and orthographic problems in copying or writing from dictation with the two hands. The second patient, with a lesion of the postero-inferior part of the left angular gyrus, made errors in choice and combination of letters during dictation, whereas these same letters were well-written and copying was normal. The first cases of pure agraphia were ascribed to frontal lesions and then confusional states. Current opinion tends to implicate parietal lesions of various types: superior or inferior, internal or external. Findings in the present 2 cases and those reported indicate that pure parietal agraphia is heterogeneous.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie et de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital Neurologique, Lyon.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trillet
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Croisile
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Laurent
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000381:Agraphia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006406:Hematoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: L'agraphie pure. A propos de deux cas.