Crossed aphasia in a right-handed bilingual Chinese man: a second case.
A persistent nonfluent aphasia following a right cerebral infarction developed in a 74-year-old right-handed Chinese man. Computerized axial tomography localized the lesion in the right frontal lobe. This case is similar to a previously reported one, also with crossed aphasia in a bilingual and dextral Chinese person. Despite these two independent observations and in spite of the fact that unusual cerebral organization might be related to early learning of a nonalphabetic (ideographic) language, preliminary sampling has failed to demonstrate a greater incidence of crossed aphasia in two separate Chinese populations.
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002681:China; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male