Intracranial calcification in childhood: A review of aetiologies and recognizable phenotypes

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 612-626

  Livingston, John H ^a   Stivaros, Stavros ^b,c   Warren, Dan ^a   Crow, Yanick J ^c  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE C;

ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; ALEXANDER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; BONE DYSPLASIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE DEFICIENCY TYPE 2; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FABRY DISEASE; FAHR DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MICROGYRIA; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHAKOMATOSIS; PORENCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM; REVIEW; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDOENCHONDRODYSPLASIA; SULFITE OXIDASE AND MOLYBDENUM COFACTOR DEFICIENCY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; WHITE MATTER LESION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84902318179     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12359     Document Type: Review

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