The paralysis may affect one side of the body-hemiplegia, or both sides-diplegia; less commonly one extremity alone is involved-monoplegia.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
In diplegia, in which both arms and both legs are affected in the first instance, the arms may recover while the lower extremities remain in a spastic state, a condition known as Little's disease.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson