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Case Reports
. 2021 Nov 12;13(11):e19495.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.19495. eCollection 2021 Nov.

An Atypical Presentation of Motor Aphasia: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Ananth G  1 , Gaurav Venkat Cuddapah  1 , Amit Shukla  1 , Ramesh Shighakolli  1
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An Atypical Presentation of Motor Aphasia: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Ananth G et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

Broca's aphasia results due to lesions involving the anterior perisylvian speech area. Patients have intact comprehension and writing but have labored, nonfluent speech with decreased linguistic output. We hereby present a case of a 47-year-old female who was operated on for left ventricular trigonal meningioma by a modified middle temporal gyrus approach and developed motor aphasia as a complication. She had intact comprehension and writing but had decreased linguistic, labored output. It could not be labeled as subcortical aphasia as she had no repetition. Eventually, her aphasia improved completely. Our case is the first of its kind and hence we propose that the posterior middle temporal gyrus area has speech output function, the lesion of which could cause motor aphasia.

Keywords: broca's aphasia; craniotomy; inferior temporal gyrus; middle temporal gyrus; motor aphasia.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Preoperative MRI brain contrast - A
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Figure 2. Preoperative MRI brain contrast - B
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Figure 3. Postoperative CT scan brain - A
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Figure 4. Postoperative CT scan brain - B
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