[Crossed anarthria and a dissociated lateralisation of language].

Introduction: Crossed anarthria cases are uncommon and rather old.

Observation: We report the case of a right-handed 55-year-old man who presented crossed pure anarthria due to a hemorrhage in the premotor cortex (feet of F1 and F2) and in the high part of Pierre-Marie's quadrangle.

Conclusion: The study of different tasks (articulation, verbal fluency, direct object word-generation from a verb) showed a dissociated lateralisation of his language.

[Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis: is there a place for surgery? Case report and review of literature].

Background And Purpose: The usual onset of intramedullary spinal cord metastases at an advanced stage of cancer disease explains that surgical removal of such lesions is rarely performed. We tried to define the place for surgery in the management of such lesions.

Methods: We report the observation of a 52-year-old male patient presenting with a metastasis of the conus medullaris revealing a lung cancer.

Micrographia secondary to lenticular lesions.

Four patients with a stroke developed micrographia. In two patients, the condition was pure and in the two other patients it was associated with signs of writer's cramp. We conclude that infarct of the left lenticular nucleus could either mimic pure micrographia similar to that of Parkinson's disease or micrographia associated with dystonia.