PARTIAL AGENESIS OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM
- 1 May 1933
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 29 (5) , 1054-1065
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1933.02240110122003
Abstract
The apparent rarity of agenesis of the corpus callosum is indicated when one considers that a review of the literature to the present time reveals only eighty-one cases. We add in the present paper a study of a brain with partial agenesis, bringing the number of cases to eighty-two. The earliest record of a case is that of Reil,1who described a brain with complete agenesis of the corpus callosum in a stupid woman, 30 years of age. In 1922, Mingazzini2summarized completely the work on agenesis of the corpus callosum, eliminating cases of atrophy and classifying the degrees of defect. His analysis indicated that there were seventy-one reported cases of agenesis of the corpus callosum, forty-three showing complete agenesis and twenty-eight showing only partial agenesis. However, three cases before 1922 were not included in Mingazzini's monograph. Two of these (those of Drossaers3and Hultkrantz4) wereKeywords
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