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Stroke in the posterior inferior cerebellar artery causes cerebellar dysfunction, bilateral motor and sensory deficits, or visual movement or field defects. It rarely affects speech
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Posterior inferior cerebellar artery
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This artery supplies the temporal cortex which contains the Wernicke's area. The type of aphasia this man is presenting with is receptive or Wernicke's aphasia, typically presenting with the inability to understand information and production of fluent jargon.
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Middle cerebral artery
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Stroke in the lenticulostriate arteries leads to pure sensory or motor symptoms, and rarely affects the speech. Typically, it would present with dysarthria or difficulty articulating words.
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Lenticulostriate arteries
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Stroke in ACA leads to mixed contralateral motor and sensory symptoms, and expressive or Broca's aphasia, typically presenting with difficulty forming and completing sentences.
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Anterior cerebral artery
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Stroke in the basilar artery leads to locked-in syndrome with motor and sensory symptoms, and dysarthria, typically presenting with difficulty articulating words.
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Basilar artery
Concept
Chapter
2693
4107
Aphasia
Topic
152
Neuroscience
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A 55-year-old male presents in A&E with his family due to altered speech for the last 3 hours. He is noted to have non-sensical speech that sounds like fluent jargon. He has a past medical history of atrial fibrillation.

On examination, he is not able to follow instructions well. There are no other neurological signs. What artery is most likely to have been affected?
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