Apraxia of speech due to the left postcentral gyrus lesion.

Key Clinical Message: Apraxia of speech (AOS) due to a postcentral infarction differs from conventional precentral AOS with respect to phonemic errors (phoneme substitution) which are more common than phonetic errors (phoneme distortion) and preserved accent and intonation.

Abstract: Clinical features of apraxia of speech caused by lesions in the postcentral gyrus have not yet been elucidated. Here, we report a patient with this lesion and show how postcentral apraxia of speech differs from the hitherto known precentral apraxia of speech.