Gomez-Tortosa E, Martin E M, Sychra J J, Dujovny M
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Neurosurgery. 1994 Sep;35(3):515-9; discussion 519-20. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199409000-00023.
We report a right-handed patient who developed a nonfluent aphasia after surgery for a right parietal arteriovenous malformation. Resting brain single-photon emission tomography displayed decreased regional cerebral blood flow only in the right hemisphere, with spared regional cerebral blood flow in the left hemisphere. Single-photon emission tomography performed after a language activation task (Boston Naming Task) showed a consistent area of increased regional cerebral blood flow in the right inferior and posterior frontal lobe, supporting a right hemisphere dominance for language. These results suggest a potential role for this noninvasive study in the evaluation of language lateralization.
