Hypergraphia associated with a brain tumour of the right cerebral hemisphere

T Imamura; A Yamadori; K Tsuburaya

doi:10.1136/jnnp.55.1.25

Hypergraphia associated with a brain tumour of the right cerebral hemisphere

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1992 Jan;55(1):25-7. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.55.1.25.

Authors

T Imamura¹, A Yamadori, K Tsuburaya

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Tohoku Kohseinenkin Hospital, Sendai, Japan.

Abstract

Two different neurobehavioural abnormalities have been reported under the term hypergraphia. One has been described in temporal lobe epilepsies and the other in the acute stage of strokes of the right cerebral hemisphere. The latter type of hypergraphia in a patient with a metastatic brain tumour confined to the right hemisphere is reported. Such hypergraphia is a general right hemisphere sign that is not peculiar to strokes in the acute stage and the writing behaviour is inattentive.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma / diagnosis
Adenocarcinoma / physiopathology*
Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
Aged
Apraxias / diagnosis
Apraxias / physiopathology
Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis
Brain Neoplasms / physiopathology*
Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
Compulsive Behavior / diagnosis
Compulsive Behavior / physiopathology*
Dominance, Cerebral / physiology*
Handwriting*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
Lung Neoplasms / physiopathology*
Male
Neurologic Examination
Parietal Lobe / physiopathology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed