1. Pure Alexia: Past and Present
Alice P. Armbruster, MA/CCC-SLP, Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD 
Mayo Clinic Proceedings 
Volume 81, Issue 3, (March 2006)
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2. Writing example from Déjérine's original patient (Monsieur C): “I went on Friday to the Salpetriere to M Charcot who has examined me for a longtime and showed me to his students telling them that I was afflicted with word blindness.” Diffusion-weighted image shows right occipital infarct. Note sudden cutoff in the right posterior cerebral artery on magnetic resonance angiography.
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