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Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder

Fahr’s syndrome is a rare neurological disorder with varied clinical manifestations. It is characterized by the progressive deposition of calcium in the walls of the blood vessels of basal ganglia and dentate nuclei of the cerebellum in young and middle-aged people. It is important for neurologists,...

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Autores principales: Thillaigovindan, Ranjani, Arumugam, Eswaran, Rai, Rathika, R, Prabhu, Kesavan, R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6839755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31772865
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5895
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author Thillaigovindan, Ranjani
Arumugam, Eswaran
Rai, Rathika
R, Prabhu
Kesavan, R
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description Fahr’s syndrome is a rare neurological disorder with varied clinical manifestations. It is characterized by the progressive deposition of calcium in the walls of the blood vessels of basal ganglia and dentate nuclei of the cerebellum in young and middle-aged people. It is important for neurologists, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, and other appropriate care specialists to have a thorough knowledge of this syndrome as any of them could be the first person to diagnose the disease. This case report of Fahr’s syndrome presents the signs and symptoms of the patient and the treatment for oral conditions were done.
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spelling pubmed-68397552019-11-26 Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder Thillaigovindan, Ranjani Arumugam, Eswaran Rai, Rathika R, Prabhu Kesavan, R Cureus Dentistry Fahr’s syndrome is a rare neurological disorder with varied clinical manifestations. It is characterized by the progressive deposition of calcium in the walls of the blood vessels of basal ganglia and dentate nuclei of the cerebellum in young and middle-aged people. It is important for neurologists, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, and other appropriate care specialists to have a thorough knowledge of this syndrome as any of them could be the first person to diagnose the disease. This case report of Fahr’s syndrome presents the signs and symptoms of the patient and the treatment for oral conditions were done. Cureus 2019-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6839755/ /pubmed/31772865 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5895 Text en Copyright © 2019, Thillaigovindan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Thillaigovindan, Ranjani
Arumugam, Eswaran
Rai, Rathika
R, Prabhu
Kesavan, R
Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title_full Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title_fullStr Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title_short Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr’s Syndrome, a Rare Disorder
title_sort idiopathic basal ganglia calcification: fahr’s syndrome, a rare disorder
topic Dentistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6839755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31772865
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5895
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