Pathology cases — Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum

This case is of a middle-aged man with moderate intellectual challenges who drowned while swimming in a lake.  Here’s a picture of the brain after fixation:

 

I originally posted a second case in a newborn, but on review some peers believed that it was a postmortem artifact. I don’t think so, but I have deleted it. People with this abnormality are at a higher rate of seizures, which is of importance both to sudden infant death and drowning.

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