Crossed aphasia with visceral situs inversus.
A patient presenting the association of anomalous cerebral dominance for language, as revealed by crossed aphasia, and partial visceral situs inversus is described. Although it cannot be excluded that the two abnormalities coincided by chance, it is suggested that they both resulted from a single aberration of development.
Cohen
L
L
Clinique de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
Gény
C
C
Hermine
O
O
Gray
F
F
Degos
J D
JD
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012857:Situs Inversus / Q000150:complications*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014781:Viscera