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Pure alexia caused by separate lesions of the splenium and optic radiation
Authors:Shinichiro Maeshima  Aiko Osawa  Keisuke Sujino  Takuya Fukuoka  Ichiro Deguchi  Norio Tanahashi
Affiliation:(1) Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, 1397-1 Yamane, Hidaka Saitama, 350-1298, Japan;(2) Department of Neurology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Japan
Abstract:
Pure alexia is severe difficulty in reading and understanding written language but with normal oral language and writing abilities. We report a patient with pure alexia caused by two different infarct lesions in the left lateral thalamus and the left splenium of the corpus callosum. A 56-year-old right-handed man was admitted to hospital with right homonymous hemianopia associated with pure alexia. He could write kana characters but not kanji. His cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed two different infarct lesions in the left optic radiation and the left splenium of the corpus callosum. Magnetic resonance angiography showed mild stenosis at the origin of the right vertebral artery and stenosis of the left distal posterior cerebral artery. The mechanism of developing pure alexia can be simply explained by disconnection. We assumed that agraphia of kanji was caused by the effect of ischemia and edema following transient obstruction in branches from the distal posterior cerebral artery.
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