Abstract

A 61-year-old dextral woman was admitted to the hospital with difficulty finding words. Neurological examinations confirmed that her speech was affected by frequent pauses and occasional phonological paraphasia without cognitive deficits. We detected atrophy, hypoperfusion, and hypometabolism in the right perisylvian and parietal regions, expanding to the right anterior temporal lobes and right inferior frontal gyrus (opercular region) by magnetic resonance imaging, single-photon emission computed tomography, and fluorodexyglucose-positron emission tomography (PET), respectively. Amyloid-PET did not identify the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) in the bilateral cerebral cortices. We herein report a case of crossed aphasia with Aβ-negative logopenic primary progressive aphasia that was likely the result of frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

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