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The first description of a total agenesis of the corpus callosum was made in 1812 by Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813), the first report of a partial agenesis, by Chatto, dates from 1848. Only in 1934 was the defect diagnosed intra vitam, by means of pneumencephalography (Davidoff and Dyke; Penfield and Hyndman). Several years earlier, L. Guttmann (1929) relating the autopsy finding of agenesis of the corpus callosum to his patient’s unusual PEG, had recognized and described the aspect of the defect on X-ray film.
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Unterharnscheidt, F., Jachnik, D., Gött, H. (1968). Summary. In: Der Balkenmangel. Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95074-2_25
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