Fahr disease is a rare neurological condition characterized by abnormal basal ganglia calcification. Some patients with have been reported to present the emergency department (ED) stroke-like symptoms. Here, we case of transient focal signs. A 63-year-old man came ED complaints slurred speech and movement his left arm. His symptoms lasted only 5 minutes before he recovered. He had no deficits w...

Intraparenchymal meningiomas without dural attachment are extremely rare, especially when they occur in basal ganglia region in child. An 8-year-old boy was admitted at our hospital, complaining of recurrent headache and vomiting for 3 months. Neurological examination showed impaired vision and mild paresis of the left extremities. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a lesion located in the...

BACKGROUND Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause characterized by idiopathic basal ganglia calcification that is associated with neuropsychiatric and cognitive impairment. No case of Fahr's disease with associated cardiac conduction disease has been described in the literature to date. The objective of this case report was to describe a young female with various c...

PURPOSE To review the cranial CT and MR examinations of 29 children with perinatally transmitted HIV infection and correlate the imaging findings with clinical and pathologic data. METHODS 28 children were examined with CT, four with MR. RESULTS CT abnormalities were seen in 25 children studied (89%), including cerebral atrophy (25 children), basal ganglia calcification (10 children), periv...

For the majority of adults and children with AIDS, the disease is associated with neurologic manifestations [1, 2]. In children, a progressive encephalopathy has been described that often has characteristic findings on CT scans, including diffuse cerebral atrophy with secondary enlargement of the ventricular system [2-4] and symmetrical bilateral calcifications of basal ganglia and white matter...

Fahr's disease is a rare neuropsychiatric disease characterized by bilateral intracranial calcification, primarily in the basal ganglia. The more general term, Fahr's syndrome, is used for primary and secondary basal ganglia calcification, regardless of the etiology, but the term Fahr's disease is used to describe primary, idiopathic cases. Fahr's disease may present with neurological symptoms,...