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Abnormal cerebral cortex morphology

MedGen UID:: 871221
•Concept ID:: C4025701
•: Anatomical Abnormality

Synonym:	Abnormality of the cerebral cortex

HPO:	HP:0002538

Definition

Any structural abnormality of the cerebral cortex. [from HPO]

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CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

Abnormal cerebral cortex morphology

Abnormality of the nervous system
- Abnormal nervous system morphology
  - Morphological central nervous system abnormality
    - Abnormal brain morphology
      - Abnormal forebrain morphology
        Abnormal cerebral morphology
        Abnormal cerebral cortex morphology
        Abnormal cortical gyration
        Dysgyria
        Dysgyria with normal cortical thickness
        Dysgyria with thickened cortex
        Lissencephaly
        2-3-layered lissencephaly
        6-layered lissencephaly
        Agyria
        Classic lissencephaly
        Classical Lissencephalies and Subcortical Band Heterotopias
        Cobblestone lissencephaly without muscular or ocular involvement
        Focal lissencephaly
        Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation
        Lissencephaly due to TUBA1A mutation
        Lissencephaly type 3
        Lissencephaly type 1 due to doublecortin gene mutation
        Microlissencephaly
        Miller Dieker syndrome
        Norman-Roberts syndrome
        Pachygyria
        Type II lissencephaly
        Unlayered lissencephaly
        X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia
        Macrogyria
        Polymicrogyria
        Bilateral frontoparietal polymicrogyria
        Bilateral polymicrogyria
        Focal polymicrogyria
        Frontal polymicrogyria
        Parasagittal parieto-occipital polymicrogyria
        Perisylvian polymicrogyria
        Unilateral polymicrogyria
        Simplified gyral pattern
        Abnormal temporal lobe morphology
        Cerebral calcification
        Basal ganglia calcification
        Bilateral intracerebral calcifications
        Congenital intracerebral calcification
        Diffuse cerebral calcification
        Intracerebral periventricular calcifications
        Midline brain calcifications
        Nonarteriosclerotic cerebral calcification
        Subcortical white matter calcifications
        Temporal lobe calcification
        Temporal lobe dysplasia
        Temporal lobe megalencephaly
        Cerebral cortex with spongiform changes
        Cerebral cortical atrophy
        Cerebral cortical hemiatrophy
        Frontal cortical atrophy
        Occipital cortical atrophy
        Parietal cortical atrophy
        Temporal cortical atrophy
        Cerebral cortical microinfarct
        Cortical dysplasia
        Focal cortical dysplasia
        Focal cortical dysplasia type I
        Focal cortical dysplasia type III
        Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type II
        Frontoparietal cortical dysplasia
        Isolated focal cortical dysplasia
        Isolated focal cortical dysplasia type I
        Mild malformation of cortical development
        Neuronal loss in the cerebral cortex
        Small cerebral cortex
        Small superior frontal cortex
        Swollen achromatic neurons in the cerebral cortex
        Thick cerebral cortex

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