[Aphasic hypergraphy in the course of a bilateral hemispheric glioblastoma].
A 68-year old patient, suffering from a left temporal and right frontal multifocal glioblastoma, initially presented Wernicke's aphasia with abnormal behavior. After a stereotaxic biopsy of his right frontal lesion, the patient developed an activity of ceaseless writing associated with mutism. This hypergraphic behavior was accompanied with a production of numerous aphasic paragraphics contrasting with the mutism. Such association could evoke the rise of a suppressive activity of the right hemisphere on graphic functions linguistically organized by the left hemisphere.
Bailbé
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Service de Neurologie, CHU La Milétrie, 86021 Poitiers, France.
Pluchon
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C
Dumas
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P
Neau
J Ph
JP
Gil
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R
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009155:Mutism / Q000150:complications; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014705:Verbal Behavior
Hypergraphie aphasique dans l'évolution d'un glioblastome bi-hémisphèrique.