Multiple intracranial calcifications
Dr Bruno Di Muzio and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.
Intracranial calcifications are common in certain locations and often do not lead to any clinical concern. These could be grouped in:
- normal intracranial calcifications: for all age-related physiologic and neurodegenerative calcification.
- intracranial arteries atherosclerosis.
- distal ICA : especially in the cavernous sinus;
- intradural vertebral arteries;
- basilar artery etc...
Concerning calcification is much less common and occurs in a variety of settings, such as:
- infection
- metabolic
-
previous cerebral insult
- healed cerebral abscess
- healed infarct
- healed haematoma
- vascular malformation
- radiation
In these cases it is also important to exclude normal calcifications.
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