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Congenital Skull Anomaly with Multiple Brain Stones and Symptomatic Meningioma of Medial Sphenoid Wing

Intracranial calcifications are not uncommon and are mostly seen with intracerebral hematomas, tuberculomas, and brain tumors. These lesions may be intra- or extra-axial and occasionally pose challenge in the diagnosis. We report a case of multiple intracranial extra-axial calcifications with congen...

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Autores principales: Chaturvedi, Monali, Janu, Vikas, Kumari, Rima, Chaturvedi, Sujata, Jain, Mukul Kumar, Jha, Deepak Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283556
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_314_16
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Sumario:Intracranial calcifications are not uncommon and are mostly seen with intracerebral hematomas, tuberculomas, and brain tumors. These lesions may be intra- or extra-axial and occasionally pose challenge in the diagnosis. We report a case of multiple intracranial extra-axial calcifications with congenital skull anomaly and multiple meningiomas. Authors could not find similar case reported in the literature and present their findings and discuss relevant literature.