Midline hyperplasia with malformation of the fornical system
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 28 (12) , 1302
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.28.12.1302
Abstract
A physically and intellectually normally developed boy had a resection of a lumbar myelomeningocele shortly after birth and a shunt was inserted for hydrocephalus. He died at age 12 years after a traffic accident. Autopsy disclosed a hyperplasia of the cerebellar vermis. An abnormal median-sagittal triangular fiber tract ran on the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum and contained more than 3 million fibers, most of them very thin and myelinated. The tract was identified as a hyperplastic fornix dorsalis. The complex malformation was attributed to hyperplasia of midline structures.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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