title: Pure anomia with spared action naming due to a left temporal lesion.
abstract: We report the case of a patient who, after surgical ablation of an angioma in the depth of the left temporal lobe, developed a highly selective impairment of naming. A detailed investigation allowed to exclude a disorder of visual recognition or of semantic memory, and indicated the output lexicon as the most probable site of impairment. Grammatical class effects, with superior action naming, and a high consistency within and across output modalities further characterized the patient's performance. Together with some other recently reported cases, this patient suggests a correlation between temporal lobe lesions outside Wernicke's area and output lexicon disorders. A relatively spared action naming seems to be a characteristic feature of this pattern of impairment.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Neurologica, dell'Università di Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miozzo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soardi
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Cappa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology