ArticleInsights into imaging2013
Brain stones revisited-between a rock and a hard place.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Infectious Diseases and Basal Ganglia Calcifications: A Cross-Sectional Study in Patients with Fahr's Disease and Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Case report: Death caused by multi-organ metastatic calcifications as a result of intramuscular injections with paraffin oil.Bone reports · 2024Article
- Calcified cerebral toxoplasmosis associated with recurrent perilesional edema causing neurological manifestations in an HIV-infected individual: case report with a decade-long follow-up.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2024Article
- Benign Intracranial Calcified Lesion or a So-Called Brain Stone: A Challenging Diagnosis.Cureus · 2023Article
- Pediatric intracranial calcified arteriovenous malformation: A case report.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Calcified Pseudoneoplasm of the Neuraxis.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2021Article
- Intracranial Gorgon: Surgical Case Report of a Large Calcified Brain Arteriovenous Malformation.The American journal of case reports · 2020Article
- Endoscopic endonasal resection of nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma with radiological calcification.Pituitary · 2019Article
- Quantitative synchrotron X-ray tomography of the material-tissue interface in rat cortex implanted with neural probes.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Fahr's Disease: A Differential to Be Considered for Various Neuropsychiatric Presentations.Cureus · 2018Article
- Six different extremely calcified lesions of the brain: brain stones.SpringerPlus · 2016Article
- Errors in neuroradiology.La Radiologia medica · 2015Review
- Familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (Fahr`s disease).Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2014Review
- Intracranial calcifications - the eternal companions.Radiologia brasileiraArticle
- Congenital Skull Anomaly with Multiple Brain Stones and Symptomatic Meningioma of Medial Sphenoid Wing.Asian journal of neurosurgeryArticle
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES AND
methodsLarge intracranial calcifications are occasionally encountered in routine computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain. These calcifications, also known as "brain stones", can be classified according to location and aetiology. Combining imaging findings with relevant clinical history and physical examination can help narrow down the differential diagnosis and may allow confident diagnosis in certain situations.
resultsThis article provides a pictorial review illustrating various clinical entities resulting in brain stones. DISCUSSION: Based on location, brain stones can be classified as extra- or intra-axial. Extra-axial brain stones comprise tumours and exaggerated physiological calcifications. Intra-axial brain stones can further be classified according to aetiology, namely neoplastic, vascular, infectious, congenital and endocrine/metabolic. Imaging findings combined with essential clinical information can help in narrowing the differential diagnosis, determining disease state and evaluating effect of therapy. TEACHING POINTS: • Based on location, brain stones can be either extra- or intra-axial. • Extra-axial brain stones comprise tumours and exaggerated physiological calcifications. • Intra-axial aetiologies include neoplastic, vascular, infectious, congenital and endocrine/metabolic. • CT scan is the mainstay in identifying and characterising brain stones. • Certain MRI sequences (gradient echo T2* and susceptibility-weighted imaging) are considered adjunctive.
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