L'agenesia del corpo calloso: Valutazione mediante risonanza magnetica e correlazioni cliniche

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Vengono riportati 11 casi di agenesia parziale o totale del corpo calloso studiati mediante risonanza magnetica in un arco di tre anni.

Sono state valutate le anomalie congenite del corpo calloso e le eventuali ulteriori anomalie encefaliche ad esso associate. I risultati ottenuti dallo studio RM sono stati correlati con il quadro clinico, evidenziando una particolare rilevanza clinica di anomalie in strutture strettamente correlate al corpo calloso quali la sostanza bianca profonda ed il sistema limbico.

La RM si è dimostrata di fondamentale importanza sia nella valutazione delle anomalie del corpo calloso, sia nel delineare le correlazioni anatomiche fra corpo calloso malformato e strutture ad esso correlate.

Keywords

Corpo calloso Anomalie encefaliche congenite Risonanza Magnetica Corpus callosum Brain congenital anomalies Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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