Cerebral calcifications: A clue for a diagnostic process in a inespecific clinical case;Calcificaciones cerebrales típicas como orientación de cuadro clínico inespecífico

Anales de Medicina Interna

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 127-129

  Benito Conejero, S ^a,b   Diaz Espejo C ^a   Lopez Dominguez J M ^a   Pujol De La Llave, E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebral calcifications; Coeliac disease; Gluten; Gluten sensitive

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIGRAINE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; DIET THERAPY; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; SYNDROME;

GLUTEN;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CELIAC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GLUTEN; HUMANS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SYNDROME;

EID: 33746808709     PISSN: 02127199     EISSN: 02127199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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