title: Middle cerebral artery territory infarction sparing the precentral gyrus: report of three cases.
abstract: We report three patients with large middle cerebral artery infarctions in the non-dominant hemisphere, with striking recovery of motor function. In each case this excellent functional outcome correlated with selective sparing of the motor cortex in the precentral gyrus. We discuss some of the possible circulatory variants that might underlie this pattern of infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ccailliau@neuro.columbia.edu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Portera-Cailliau
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Buonanno
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Feske
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020244:Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology