Takeda M, Tachibana H, Shibuya N, Nakajima Y, Okuda B, Sugita M, Tanaka H
Fifth Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya.
Intern Med. 1999 Mar;38(3):293-5. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.293.
There have been few case reports of pure anomic aphasia and the underlying mechanism remains to be clarified. We report a patient in whom pure anomic aphasia was caused by subcortical hemorrhage in the left temporo-parieto-occipital lobe. Based on magnetic resonance images and cerebral blood flow imaging, the structural lesion underlying the pure anomic aphasia was thought to be located at the left temporo-occipital junction.