title: Motor aprosodia due to isolated brainstem stroke in a young woman.
abstract: A 21 year old woman presented with coma and quadriparesis secondary to bilateral pontine infarction. Three weeks later motor aprosodia was the most notable neurological finding apart from mild asymmetric limb weakness. No other supratentorial lesion was noted on initial and subsequent multimodality magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance perfusion imaging revealed right frontotemporal hypoperfusion. This is the first report of aprosodia with an isolated brainstem lesion.
authors.affiliation: Stroke Center, Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. mhoffman@hsc.usf,edu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D020526:Brain Stem Infarctions / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000473:pathology; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology