Corticospinal Dysgenesis and Congenital Hemiplegia

Abstract

A diffusion tensor imaging technique was compared with conventional MRI to measure and quantify corticospinal dysgenesis in 12 patients with congenital hemiplegia and 12 matched control subjects, in a study at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

Keywords

• corticospinal dysgenesis
• congenital hemiplegia
• symmetry index