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Brain death, irreversible coma, and words doctors use

Department of Neurology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health, Washington, DC.

Three patients who developed global aphasia without hemiparesis were ultimately shown to have had embolic infarcts. Global aphasia without hemiparesis is produced by two discrete Jesions in the dominant hemisphere, posterior-inferior frontal and posterior temporal-parietal, and is a sign of embolic encephalopathy.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Molinari, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The H. B. Burns Memorial Building, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037.

Accepted for publication November 12, 1981.

Global aphasia without hemiparesis: A sign of embolic encephalopathy

Gage Van Horn, M.D., and Anne Hawes, M.D.

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