SYMMETRICAL ANO BILATERAL CALCIFICATIONS OF THE BASAL GANGLIA ANO EPILEPTIC SEIZURES
Keywords:
intracranial calcification, Fahr's disease, epilepsyAbstract
This is the case history of a patient suffering from epileptic seizures for ten years, and showing bilateral and symmetrical intracranial calcifications involving the basal nuclei and dentate nuclei of the cerebe//um in the computerized tomography of the cranium. Reports of the occurrence of bilateral calcifications of the basal nuc!ei can be found in the literature, referring to patients with diverse clinica/ symptoms, mainly with movement disorders, but rarely in patients suffering from epileptic seizures, as in this case. No relation between the epileptic seizures and the ca!cifications was observed. They were probably fortuitous radio!ogical findings in an epileptic patient.
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