Description of the disease * EnglishPolish Pobierz sekcję do PDF Definition Primary progressive apraxia of speech is a rare neurodegenerative disease characterized by impaired planning or programming of the movements for speech, leading to phonetically and prosodically abnormal speech, in absence, at onset, of any other neurological features (such as aphasia, memory loss, pyramidal signs). Patients usually present articulatory distortions/groping, slow rate, distorted sound substitutions and/or trial and error articulatory movements which begin insiduously and worsen over time. Disease data Classification Disease Synonyms PPAOS PPAOS ORPHA code 314566 OMIM code - ICD10 code G31.8 ICD11 code - *Soruce Extended description of the disease Pobierz sekcję do PDF No additional description. Orphanet - interntowa baza danych dotyczących rzadkich chorób i sierochych leków. ©INSERM 1999 - Dostępna na stronie www.orphanet.pl