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Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

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Definition: A form of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and a progressive form of dementia characterized by motor speech impairment and AGRAMMATISM, with relative sparing of single word comprehension and semantic memory.      Other names Syndromes, PPA; Syndrome, PPA; Progressive Nonfluent Aphasias; PPA Syndromes; Nonfluent Aphasias, Progressive; Nonfluent Aphasia, Progressive; Non fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia; Aphasias, Progressive Nonfluent; Aphasia, Progressive Nonfluent; PPA Syndrome; Non-fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia; Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

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