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Stroke, Vol 20, 1079-1084, Copyright © 1989 by American Heart Association

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Evidence of cortical reorganization in hemiparetic patients

JP Brion, G Demeurisse and A Capon
Service de Revalidation neurologique, Hopital Universitaire Brugmann, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

We studied the mechanisms underlying the recovery of motor function of the hand using a bidimensional xenon-133 inhalation technique to measure regional cerebral blood flow at rest and during the performance of a motor task (test condition). The regional cerebral blood flow patterns under rest and test conditions were compared in normal control and in stroke patients with either a cortico-subcortical or a deep- seated lesion. Functional recovery appears to depend upon cortical reorganization involving both hemispheres, particularly in both parietal regions in the subgroup of patients with cortico-subcortical lesions.

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