Clinical, neuroimaging and cytogenetic findings in 20 patients with corpus callosum dysgenesis.
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Twenty children with corpus callosum agenesis or hypoplasia were evaluated under a standardized investigation protocol. Psychomotor retardation, seizures, and craniofacial anomalies were the most prominent findings. There were three cases of chromosomal anomalies, all of them representing trisomy of chromosome 8.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
دوره 60 2-B شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002