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Query: UMLS:C0017636 (glioblastoma)
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A 68-year old patient, suffering from a left temporal and right frontal multifocal glioblastoma, initially presented Wernicke's aphasia with abnormal behavior. After a stereotaxic biopsy of his right frontal lesion, the patient developed an activity of ceaseless writing associated with mutism. This hypergraphic behavior was accompanied with a production of numerous aphasic paragraphics contrasting with the mutism. Such association could evoke the rise of a suppressive activity of the right hemisphere on graphic functions linguistically organized by the left hemisphere.
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PMID:[Aphasic hypergraphy in the course of a bilateral hemispheric glioblastoma]. 1269 Jul 39