Aphasia following right striato-insular infarction in a left-handed child: a clinico-radiological study.
The case of six-year-old girl with non-fluent aphasia following a subcortical right-hemispheric cerebrovascular accident is reported. Examination by computerised tomographic scan revealed a right paraventricular area of diminished density involving the internal capsule, lenticular nucleus and the insula. The speech disturbance was followed by typical right-hemispheric signs and by left-channel extinction in dichotic listening tests. The aphasia cleared in two weeks, paralleled by an improvement in left-channel performance, suggesting that language recovery was dependent on right-hemispheric structures.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography