A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure

Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, identified by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications of mainly the basal ganglia. Patients often present extrapyramidal or neuropsychological symptoms. Seizure is one of the rarest manifestations that can reveal Fahr disease....

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Autores principales: Choayb, Safaa, El Harras, Yahya, Lahfidi, Amal, Touarsa, Firdaous, Fikri, Meriem, Ech-Cherif El Kettani, Najoua, Jiddane, Mohamed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36970236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.02.043
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author Choayb, Safaa
El Harras, Yahya
Lahfidi, Amal
Touarsa, Firdaous
Fikri, Meriem
Ech-Cherif El Kettani, Najoua
Jiddane, Mohamed
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El Harras, Yahya
Lahfidi, Amal
Touarsa, Firdaous
Fikri, Meriem
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Jiddane, Mohamed
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description Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, identified by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications of mainly the basal ganglia. Patients often present extrapyramidal or neuropsychological symptoms. Seizure is one of the rarest manifestations that can reveal Fahr disease. We present the case of a 47-year-old male patient who had Fahr disease revealed by an inaugural tonic-clonic seizure.
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spelling pubmed-100308082023-03-23 A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure Choayb, Safaa El Harras, Yahya Lahfidi, Amal Touarsa, Firdaous Fikri, Meriem Ech-Cherif El Kettani, Najoua Jiddane, Mohamed Radiol Case Rep Case Report Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, identified by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications of mainly the basal ganglia. Patients often present extrapyramidal or neuropsychological symptoms. Seizure is one of the rarest manifestations that can reveal Fahr disease. We present the case of a 47-year-old male patient who had Fahr disease revealed by an inaugural tonic-clonic seizure. Elsevier 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10030808/ /pubmed/36970236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.02.043 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Choayb, Safaa
El Harras, Yahya
Lahfidi, Amal
Touarsa, Firdaous
Fikri, Meriem
Ech-Cherif El Kettani, Najoua
Jiddane, Mohamed
A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title_full A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title_fullStr A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title_short A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
title_sort rare case of fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36970236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.02.043
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