Fetal therapy.

The advances in fetal therapy including endoscopic approaches and the advent of safer anesthetic techniques has led to the intrauterine management of potentially lethal diseases or diseases associated with high morbidity. This review will elicit certain newer techniques for fetal therapy including their application and complications.

Crossed aphasia leading to pure word deafness.

We report a case of crossed aphasia following a vascular insult of the right hemisphere in a middle aged dextral man with subsequent evolution to pure word deafness. Development of pure word deafness during recovery from crossed Wernickes aphasia is an extremely rare clinical entity. Probably this is the first Indian report of this entity.