Primary progressive aphasia: description of a clinical case with nine years of follow-up.
We describe the case of a woman with primary progressive aphasia who, over a period of nine years, has shown no signs of clinical deterioration and has only a symptomatic language disturbance. Neuropsychological follow-up has revealed progressive language impairment, with the integrity of praxis, visuoperceptive gnosia and short term visuospatial memory remaining intact; the only impairment was that revealed by long-term memory tests.
Mazzoni
M
M
U.O. di Neurologia Ospedale di Lucca, Italy.
Pollera Orsucci
M
M
Giraldi
C
C
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon