(1) Two right-handed patients became agraphic after left hemisphere lesions; pure apraxic agraphia in the absence of limb apraxia developed in one patient and pure linguistic agraphia in association with severe ideomotor limb apraxia in the other.
(2) From the technical point of view reasons of the superiority of stapled technique are discussed and summarized as follows: 1) space not favourable for handsewn anastomoses; 2) stapled technique allows the surgeon to save anastomoses vascularization; 3) the stapler performs the suture simultaneously so to reduce tensile strength on the anastomoses and the fragile esophageal wall especially; 4) stapled agraphes are fixed in three points vs. the two points of the handsewn stitches.
(3) Agraphic persons correct their mistakes, dyslectics do not.
(4) In fact, in the ten cases preoperative neuropsychological investigation shows, at various levels, aphasic, alexic and agraphic signs.
(5) Disturbances of higher functions : Alexia was seen in 33 p. 100 of the left-sided masses (24 p. 100 "agraphic", 9 p. 100 "pure word blindness") Space agnosias of different type was found in 10 p. 100 of the patients, sometimes with purely occipital tumors.
(6) One left hemisphere speech-dominant, left-handed patient was agraphic after surgery, but spoke normally.
Dysgraphia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
(2) It is concluded that dyslexia and dysgraphia-type of reading and writing disorders in primary school children are factors exerting unfavourable effect on the marks at school and are likely to be etiologically related to some disturbances of health and disorders of lateralization.
(3) Lateral premotor lesions of the dominant hemisphere produce a motor dysgraphia or motor dysphasia or both.
(4) An analytical investigation of the residual reading capacities of a single patient with dyslexia without dysgraphia is reported.
(5) A 68 years old, right handed, hypertensive man who had experienced an episode of left hemiparesis of several weeks' duration developed a syndrome of minor hemisphere, metamorphopsia, visuoconstructive disability, spatial dysgraphia, topographical and geographical disorientation and dressing apraxia, with associated left homonymous hemianopsia.
(6) A left-handed man with a history of phonological developmental dyslexia and dysgraphia learned in early adulthood to read and write using a lexical system.
(7) However, children with a spelling or motor dysgraphia had speeds of motor performance on successive finger movements and rapid hand pats outwith the normal range.
(8) The subject is introduced by briefly considering the childhood learning disorders as a whole, and subsequently dysgraphia will be considered in particular with description and illustration of the different types.
(9) 82% have defective spatial orientation, dysphasia, or dysgraphia.
(10) Thirty-nine per cent of the children had a specific dysgraphia and there was a male predominance.
(11) In our second paper we report a detailed neuropsychological study which we made of 66 children with dysgraphia.
(12) Severe right side hemineglect, transcortical motor dysprosodia, spatial dysgraphia and visuo-constructive impairments were observed.
(13) There was nearly perfect preservation of other psychological functions with good recall of distant events and no dysphasia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, right-left disorientation, constructional apraxia or visual agnosia.
(14) These observations imply that an acquired lexical agraphia has been superimposed on his developmental phonological dysgraphia, resulting in a combined or 'phonolexical' agraphia.
(15) A family history of written language skill difficulties was elicited for most of the children with a developmental spelling dysgraphia, but it was uncommon in the children with an acquired spelling dysgraphia or motor dysgraphia.
(16) In this paper we propose a clinical neurological classification of childhood dysgraphia (medical model).
(17) He was right-handed with no sinistral relative, and showed dyslexia and dysgraphia early in his clinical course.
(18) In the present study, a single subject with dyslexia and dysgraphia was examined on parallel tests of recognizing orally spelled words, reading, and spelling (writing), and a comparison was made of his performance on the three tasks.
(19) A case study of a 65 year old man is described with an eight-year history of progressive primary non-fluent aphasia accompanied by agrammatism, phonemic paraphasias and mild spelling dysgraphia.
(20) We report a case of a 35-year-old teacher, Louise, with a history of learning difficulties and current evidence of developmental phonological dyslexia and dysgraphia.