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[Naming difficulties seen in a case of alexia with agraphia caused by a left postero-inferior temporal lesion]

K Sakai1, Y Sakurai, M Sakuta

  • 1Department of Neurology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center.

Rinsho Shinkeigaku = Clinical Neurology
|November 1, 1992
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