title: Motor aphasia unaccompanied by faciobrachial weakness.
abstract: Most patients with motor aphasia resulting from lesions of the left frontal opercular region have weakness of the right face and arm. We report a 43-year-old man who suffered mutism and agraphia unaccompanied by right-sided weakness after embolic infarction of Broca's area.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000381:Agraphia / Q000503:physiopathology; D001037:Aphasia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001132:Arm; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005145:Face; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009155:Mutism / Q000503:physiopathology