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Abstract
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.
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- Non-fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
- PPA Syndrome
- Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia
- Aphasia, Progressive Nonfluent
- Aphasias, Progressive Nonfluent
- Non fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Nonfluent Aphasia, Progressive
- Nonfluent Aphasias, Progressive
- PPA Syndromes
- Progressive Nonfluent Aphasias
- Syndrome, PPA
- Syndromes, PPA
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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History Note
2010; use APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE 2001-2009
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- Aphasia, Broca (1991-2003)
- Aphasia, Primary Progressive (2003-2009)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057178. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057178
- Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_nonfluent_aphasia
- Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18583