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We reported on thirteen children affected with malformative syndromes associated with mental retardation. MRI examination showed in all of them different types of anomalies; agenesis of corpus callosum, ventricular dilatation and cerebral matter alterations were the most frequent findings. The authors give a brief description of the clinical reports and of the anomalies observed with MRI; they conclude that MRI seems to be a valuable tool especially for the study of the alterations of the cerebral matter and their correlation with mental retardation.
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Gabrielli, O., Salvolini, U., Coppa, G.V. et al. Magnetic resonance imaging in the malformative syndromes with mental retardation. Pediatr Radiol 21, 16–19 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02010806
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