[Patients's with aphasia communication problems].

Aphasia is a speech disorder caused by disorders of speech centre in brain cortex. Patient with aphasia compensates communication disorders by communication strategy, witch are spontaneous mechanisms, and uses individual rehabilitation methods. Compensation mechanisms are divided in to: phonetic, inflective, formative, semantic, discursive and structural.

A misdiagnosed patient: 16 years of locked-in syndrome, the influence of rehabilitation.

Background: LiS can be mistakenly recognized as a vegetative state, minimally conscious state or akinetic mutism. It can be caused by isolated lesions--bilateral infarction, vertebrobasilar artery osslusion, haemorrhage or tumor of the ventral portion of the basis pontis or midbrain.

Case Report: The case of a 65-year-old patient with a brain tumor localized in the posterior part of the posterior commissure of the brain was presented.