Decreased multi-band posterior interhemispheric coherence with a lipoma on the corpus callosum: a case report of a possible association.

The corpus callosum plays a role in mediating interhemisphere communication. Coherence may be a quantitative EEG-based measure of this communication. The present report is of a female schizophrenic patient with a marked coherence deficit in the temporal-parietal-occipital region involving multiple frequency bands. An MRI scan of her brain revealed a lipoma involving the splenium of the corpus callosum. It is speculated that this lipoma may have caused a physical impingment on or developmental aberration of adjacent callosal fibers, resulting in the observed coherence deficit. Further studies of coherence measures in patients with collosal lipomas are proposed.