Familial idiopathic cerebral calcifications.
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Familial idiopathic cerebral calcifications.
Nine members of a family spanning three generations showed bilateral calcifications of the basal ganglia with autosomal dominant inheritance. Two members developed chorea, dementia, and a characteristic speech disturbance (palialalia) in the third or fourth decade. A third member possibly shows the initial stage of a similar syndrome. Six members with calcifications but without neurological sig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.40.3.280