Aphasia is a language disorder due to damage of the language center in the dominant hemis-
phere.
I studied 42 patients whose main neurologic symptom was aphasia. In 42 aphasia patients, motor aphasia appeared in 13 pts(30.9%), sensory aphasia in 11 pts(26.1%), conduction aphasia in 5 pts(11.9 % ), anomic aphasia in 4 pts(9.5 % ), global aphasia in 4 pts(9.5 % ), transcortical motor aphasia in 3 pts(7A%), transcortical sensory aphasia in 2 pts(4.7%).
The most common associated pathologic condition was hypertension (85.7 % ) and the others were hypertriglyceridemia(42.9%), cardiac arrythmia(38.1%), transient ischemic attack(14.5 %), seizure(9.5 %) and hypotension(7A % ).
The most common combined neurologic symptom was motor hemiparesis(26.22 % ), and the others were dysphagia, sensory hemianesthesia, ocular motor disturbance, agraphia, alexia, acacudia, finger agnosia and -apraxia.
The anomic aphasia and transcortical aphasia had best prognosis and the global aphasia had worst prognosis.
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