[Corpus callosum syndrome in children]

Neurochirurgie. 1998 May;44(1 Suppl):110-2.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The survey of callosotomized children is a difficult because they often present a severe epilepsy with mental retardation. The younger the child, the better he recovers. The child can be considered as a physiological split-brain. If one compares commissurotomized children with those presenting an agenesis of the corpus callosum, the later ones have, to a certain extent, an interhemispherical transfer which suggests supportive ipsilateral or sub-cortical connections.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Agenesis of Corpus Callosum*
  • Brain Diseases / congenital*
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Child
  • Corpus Callosum / physiopathology
  • Functional Laterality / physiology
  • Humans
  • Syndrome