A Parkinson’s Disease Patient without Corpus Callosum

Article type: Case Report

Authors: Kho, Kuan H.^{a; *} | Leijten, Quinten H.^b | Dorresteijn, Lucille D. A.^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands | [b] Department of Neurology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Kuan H. Kho, MD, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente, P.O.Box 55 000, 7500 KA Enschede, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 53 4872840; E-mail: k.kho@mst.nl.

Abstract: The authors report of a patient with Parkinson’s disease in whom imaging revealed a complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. Although this co-occurrence is probably coincidental, this finding suggests that the bilateral degenerative changes in Parkinson’s disease may occur independent of the interhemispheric connections.

Keywords: Agenesis of corpus callosum, corpus callosum, Parkinson’s disease, Parkinsonian disorders

DOI: 10.3233/JPD-191599

Journal: Journal of Parkinson's Disease, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 441-442, 2019