We here report a patient with postcentral gyrus infarction whose touch and pain sensations in the right forearm and hand were impaired but proprioceptive sensation was spared. We observed the clinicoradiological correlation between sensory impairment of tactile and pain sensation with spared proprioceptive sensation and the posterior postcentral gyrus lesion, which may be important in understanding the function of human primary sensory cortex.
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