Isolated corpus callosum agenesis

What it is

A rare non-syndromic cerebral malformation characterized by congenital partial or complete absence of the corpus callosum. Patients are often asymptomatic but may also present with intellectual disability, visual impairment, delayed speech development, seizures, feeding difficulties, impaired hand-eye coordination, and behavioral abnormalities. Patients may have a normal intelligence quotient while exhibiting specific cognitive deficits, such as reduced interhemispheric transfer of sensorimotor information, reduced cognitive processing speed, and deficits in complex reasoning and novel problem-solving.

Key facts

Prevalence

1-9 / 100 000 (at birth, United States)

Age of onset

Antenatal

Inheritance

Not applicable

Classified as

Morphological anomaly

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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