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Octavio Carranza-Rentería1, Marc A Swerdloff1,2
1Neurology, Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Boca Raton, USA.
Abstract:
Alexia without agraphia is a striking vascular syndrome of the acquired inability to read words just written down. This syndrome occurs after lesions in the splenium of the corpus callosum that disconnect the angular gyrus from the visual pathway. Most of the time, a lesion in the left occipital lobe is also present, and patients present with a visual field deficit. It is a classic neurological syndrome that is rarely seen. We present two cases of alexia without agraphia seen in our hospital the same week.
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