RARE CASE REPORT OF LATE IDENTIFICATION OF CORPUM CALLOSUM DYSGENESIS IN A CHILD WITH BILATERAL HEARING LOSS
Abstract:
The corpus callosum is the most important relay connection between the two hemispheres. The
malformation of the corpus callosum manifests as total agenesis or dysgenesis of various degrees and
these afflictions have highly variable clinical expression. Current imaging investigative possibilities
allow the early detection of any malformations even in the fetal period. The cases in which brain
malformation, either solitary or within a syndrome, associates with sensory or neural hearing loss are
very rare. The authors present the case of a child with severe bilateral hearing loss and dysgenesis of
the corpus callosum. The retrocochlear feature of hearing loss and the late identification of the
malformative pathology of the brain is what gives the case its particularities.
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