[Ataxic hemiparesis with cerebellar dysarthria due to an opercular lesion].

A 63 year-old-man, with an opercular infarct had a motor deficit with ataxic hemiparesis and cerebellar dysarthria. The motor deficit disappeared, but the cerebellar signs remained after three months. A voice instrumental analysis confirmed the cerebellar pattern of the dysarthria.

Disorders of auditory identification in dementia of the Alzheimer type.

Fifteen patients with probable DAT and 18 matched controls were given tests that required the identification of verbal (phonemes and words) and non verbal (sounds and melodies) stimuli. In all tests, DAT patients made significantly more errors than controls. Errors predominated in non verbal tests in both groups.

Auditory agnosia with relative sparing of speech perception.

We report a case of auditory agnosia in which the initial clinical picture began with generalized auditory agnosia for verbal and non verbal sounds, but rapidly changed to a selective auditory agnosia confined to the perception of non verbal sounds. CT scanning and MRI did not demonstrate cortical or subcortical damage, except for bilateral ventricular enlargement. The patient was submitted to audiological investigations including physical and psychoacoustic studies.

[Prosthetic vocal rehabilitation of Herrmann's type after total laryngectomy. Results apropos of 29 cases].

The authors performed 29 surgical interventions of this type (24 primary and 5 secondary implantations). The treatment protocols, especially, the radio-chemotherapeutic protocols, were not changed and the radiotherapeutic tolerance of these prosthetic implants was particularly outstanding. This method may find wide application as well after single total laryngectomy as after circular total pharyngeal laryngectomy with restoration by gastric transplant.