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BMJ Case Reports 2009; doi:10.1136/bcr.08.2008.0764
  • Rare disease

Bilateral mesial temporal polymicrogyria: a case report

  1. Giorgi Kuchukhidze1,
  2. Raimund Helbok1,
  3. Iris Unterberger1,
  4. Florian Koppelstaetter2,
  5. Thomas Bodner1,
  6. Eugen Trinka1
  1. 1
    Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
  2. 2
    Department of Radiology II, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
  1. eugen.trinka{at}uki.at
  • Published 2 February 2009

Summary

Polymicrogyria is a malformation of cortical organisation morphologically marked by an irregular brain surface with multiple excessively folded small gyri. Cortical thickness is reduced but appears increased in some areas as a result of the fusion of small gyri. On magnetic resonance imaging polymicrogyria is delineated by an abnormal gyral pattern, increased cortical thickness and irregularity of the cortical–white matter junction.

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