A case of idiopathic basal ganglia calcification associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2351-2356

  Tsuchiya, Yoshiki ^a,b   Ubara, Yoshifumi ^a   Anzai, Makoto ^b   Hiramatsu, Rikako ^a   Suwabe, Tatsuya ^a   Hoshino, Junichi ^a   Sumida, Keiichi ^a   Hasegawa, Eiko ^a   Yamanouchi, Masayuki ^a   Hayami, Noriko ^a   Marui, Yuji ^a   Sawa, Naoki ^a   Hara, Shigeko ^a   Takaichi, Kenmei ^a   Oohashi, Kenichi ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fahr's disease; Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC); Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FAHR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PYRAMIDAL SIGN;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 80054744823     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5747     Document Type: Article

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