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Primary familial brain calcifications.
Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2018
Quintáns Beatriz, Oliveira Joao, Sobrido María-Jesús
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Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC) is a neurodegenerative disease with characteristic calcium deposits in the basal ganglia and other brain regions. The disease usually presents as a combination of abnormal movements, cognitive and psychiatric manifestations, clinically indistinguishable from other adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders. The differential diagnosis must be established with genetic and...
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