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ArticleCureus2019

Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification: Fahr's Syndrome, a Rare Disorder.

Ranjani Thillaigovindan, Eswaran Arumugam, Rathika Rai, Prabhu R, R Kesavan

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Article in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ranjani ThillaigovindanProsthodontics, Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, IND.
Eswaran ArumugamProsthodontics, Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, IND.
Rathika RaiProsthodontics, Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, IND.
Prabhu RProsthodontics, Thai Moogambigai Dental College & Hospital, Chennai, IND.
R KesavanPublic Health Dentistry, Thai Moogambigai Dental College & Hospital, Chennai, IND.
Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fahr's syndrome is a rare neurological disorder with varied clinical manifestations. It is characterized by the progressive deposition of calcium in the walls of the blood vessels of basal ganglia and dentate nuclei of the cerebellum in young and middle-aged people. It is important for neurologists, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, and other appropriate care specialists to have a thorough knowledge of this syndrome as any of them could be the first person to diagnose the disease. This case report of Fahr's syndrome presents the signs and symptoms of the patient and the treatment for oral conditions were done.

Indexed as

basal ganglia calcificationfahr’s syndromeidiopathicmissing toothneurological disorder

Identifiers

PMID31772865
PMCPMC6839755
OpenAlexW2980314177

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