Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2002 , Vol 48 , Num 5

Okuma-Yazma Fonksiyonlarında Çapraz Dominans: Olgu Sunumu

Ayşe Dilek 1 ,Metin Karataş 2 ,Nur Turhan 3 ,Mahmut Nafiz Akman 1
1 Başkent Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Ankara
2 Baskent Üniversitesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
3 Başkent Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye

Seventy-six years of age with right hand dominancy had left hemiplegia, left homonymous hemianopsia and alexia-agraphia after infarction of right middle cerebral artery watershed area. When the patient was evaluated after 1st and 2st month of stroke; there was a functional loss in reading and writing but no problem in other language functions.

Keywords : Stroke, crossed alexia-agraphia