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Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Dementia > Aphasia, Primary Progressive > Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

Preferred term

Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A form of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and a progressive form of dementia characterized by motor speech impairment and AGRAMMATISM, with relative sparing of single word comprehension and semantic memory.

Entry terms

  • Non-fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
  • PPA Syndrome
  • Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-K2ZL5890-J

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