Anesthetic management in corpus callosum agenesis

Corpus callosum agenesis.

OBJECTIVE The objectives are to analyse corpus callosum agenesis in children with various neurological problems in a hospital set-up, and to study the neurological and systemic abnormalities associated with this condition. METHODS The children with various neurological problems who underwent computerized tomography brain from January 1993 to December 1997, and were found to have corpus callos...

Isolated corpus callosum agenesis

Disease name and synonyms Diagnostic criteria/definition Differential diagnosis Etiology Clinical description Diagnostic methods Prevalence Genetic counselling Prenatal diagnosis Management / treatment Unresolved questions References

Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum

Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum

COMPLETE or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum is uncommon especially in adults; the incidence amongst patients in institutions where numerous air encephalograms are performed is 3% (Carpenter and Drukemiller, 1953). Reil (1812) published the first report of a case, describing the necropsy findings in a 30 year old woman of low mentality; further cases discovered at necropsy were subsequen...

Agenesis of the corpus callosum.

COMPLETE or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum is uncommon especially in adults; the incidence amongst patients in institutions where numerous air encephalograms are performed is 3% (Carpenter and Drukemiller, 1953). Reil (1812) published the first report of a case, describing the necropsy findings in a 30 year old woman of low mentality; further cases discovered at necropsy were subsequen...