Abstract
Fahr’s disease (FD), also called idiopathic striopallidodentate calcinosis, nonarteriosclerotic cerebral calcification or idiopathic basal ganglia calcification1,2, is a rare clinical entity characterized by movement disorders, dementia and behavioral disorders related to symmetric and bilateral calcifications of the basal ganglia. Sporadic and family cases have been reported1-3. FD should be differentiated from Fahr’ syndrome. The latter is defined as symmetric and bilateral calcifications of the basal ganglia associated with neuropsychiatric manifestations that preferentially occur in patients with parathyroid disorders, especially hypoparathyroidism2 [...]
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