Multiple intracranial calcifications
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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
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intracranial arteries atherosclerosis
- distal ICA: especially in the cavernous sinus
- intradural vertebral arteries
- basilar artery
Concerning calcification is much less common and occurs in a variety of settings, such as:
- infection
- metabolic
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previous cerebral insult
- healed cerebral abscess
- healed infarct
- healed haematoma
- vascular malformation
- radiation
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neurodegeneration
- Adult-onset Leukoencephalopathy with axonal Spheroids and pigmented Glia (ALSP)3
In these cases it is also important to exclude normal calcifications. For a larger list of possible diseases with brain calcifications see the Online Resource of Ref. 3.
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- +<strong>neurodegeneration</strong><ul><li>Adult-onset Leukoencephalopathy with axonal Spheroids and pigmented Glia (ALSP)<sup>3</sup>
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- +</ul><p>In these cases it is also important to exclude <a href="/articles/normal-intracranial-calcifications">normal calcifications</a>. For a larger list of possible diseases with brain calcifications see the Online Resource of Ref. 3.</p>
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- 3. Konno T, Tada M, Tada M, et al. Haploinsufficiency of CSF-1R and clinicopathologic characterization in patients with HDLS. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937843/" target="_blank">Neurology 2014;82:139-148</a>.
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