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Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports

Fahr’s syndrome is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by symmetrical and bilateral intracerebral calcifications located in the basal ganglia and usually associated with a phosphorus and calcium metabolism disorder. Clinical manifestations of Fahr’s syndrome vary; it may start at different age...

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Autores principales: Ongun, Nedim, Degirmenci, Eylem, Erdogan, Cagdas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kare Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058390
http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2015.47966
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description Fahr’s syndrome is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by symmetrical and bilateral intracerebral calcifications located in the basal ganglia and usually associated with a phosphorus and calcium metabolism disorder. Clinical manifestations of Fahr’s syndrome vary; it may start at different ages and have a variety of presentations. This article discusses rare presentation of Fahr’s syndrome with epileptic seizure. These cases are important because they appear to be the first cases in the literature of Fahr’s syndrome presenting with generalized tonic clonic seizure.
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spelling pubmed-51750822017-01-05 Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports Ongun, Nedim Degirmenci, Eylem Erdogan, Cagdas North Clin Istanb Case Report Fahr’s syndrome is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by symmetrical and bilateral intracerebral calcifications located in the basal ganglia and usually associated with a phosphorus and calcium metabolism disorder. Clinical manifestations of Fahr’s syndrome vary; it may start at different ages and have a variety of presentations. This article discusses rare presentation of Fahr’s syndrome with epileptic seizure. These cases are important because they appear to be the first cases in the literature of Fahr’s syndrome presenting with generalized tonic clonic seizure. Kare Publishing 2016-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5175082/ /pubmed/28058390 http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2015.47966 Text en Copyright: © Istanbul Northern Anatolian Association of Public Hospitals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title_full Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title_fullStr Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title_short Fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: Two case reports
title_sort fahr’s syndrome presenting with epileptic seizure: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058390
http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2015.47966
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