Motor stroke sparing the leg

Motor strokes sparing the leg.Different lesions and causes. Fretias et al. (Bogousslavsky) Arch Neurol 2000; 57:513-518. 895 infarcts were examined, and compared with 1644 cases involving the leg. Typically, leg involvement meant more likely small arteriolar disease, whereas absence of leg involvement meant superfical cortical disease in either of the branches of the MCA due to large artery emboli or atherosclerosis without stenosis