Abstract
We describe a boy who has gelastic epilepsy, precocious puberty, hypothalamic hamartoma,
and agenesis of the corpus callosum. We believe that this is the first documented
case in which agenesis of the corpus callosum has been associated with hypothalamic
hamartoma and gelastic epileptic syndrome in a child.
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Publication history
Accepted:
January 29,
1998
Received in revised form:
January 20,
1998
Received:
October 30,
1997
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© 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
