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

Preferred term

Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Aphasia, Progressive Nonfluent
  • Aphasias, Progressive Nonfluent
  • Nonfluent Aphasia, Progressive
  • Nonfluent Aphasias, Progressive
  • Non fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
  • Non-fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
  • PPA Syndrome
  • PPA Syndromes
  • Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia
  • Progressive Nonfluent Aphasias
  • Syndrome, PPA
  • Syndromes, PPA

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2010; use APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE 2001-2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D057178

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