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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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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 |
author_facet | 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. |
spellingShingle | Dentistry 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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