{"title":"Language impairment: stepwise or slowly progressive?","authors":"Joseph C Masdeu","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>MRI showed ischemic lesions of the left hemisphere in a patient with a worsening language disturbance that by history could be caused either by ischemia or by a focal degenerative brain disorder. A positron emission tomography study indicated the presence of a degenerative disorder, the most common cause of which is tau-positive pathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":21171,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in neurological diseases","volume":"5 1","pages":"29-31, 42-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Reviews in neurological diseases","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
MRI showed ischemic lesions of the left hemisphere in a patient with a worsening language disturbance that by history could be caused either by ischemia or by a focal degenerative brain disorder. A positron emission tomography study indicated the presence of a degenerative disorder, the most common cause of which is tau-positive pathology.