Extensive bilateral intracranial calcifications: A case of iatrogenic hypoparathyroidism

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zisimopoulou, Vaso ^a   Siatouni, Anna ^a   Tsoukalos, Grigorios ^a   Tavernarakis, Antonios ^a   Gatzonis, Stylianos ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXOPHTHALMOS; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDECTOMY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84886277886     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/932184     Document Type: Article

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