Reversible cursive agraphia
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Reversible cursive agraphia.
A 56-year-old right-handed woman, with fine penmanship, presented with inability to perform cursive writing due to calvarial metastasis of a tibial osteosarcoma and left frontal lobe involvement (figures 1 and 2). Tumor resection resulted in a regained capacity for cursive handwriting. Allographs are variants of graphemic representations (upper vs lower case or cursive vs print). Writing requir...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000001754