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11929581

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
We report a 79-year-old female with atypical senile dementia with Fahr-type calcification. The patient started to show memory disturbance at the age of 75 years, followed by visual hallucination, stereotypy, personality changes such as irritability, aggression and disinhibition. Brain computed tomography (CT) demonstrated bilateral and symmetric calcification of the basal ganglia and thalamus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed diffuse cortical atrophy pronounced in the fronto-temporal areas. On MRI T1-weighted images the calcified areas showed a mixture of low- and high-intensity signals. Based on the overlapping clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and Pick's disease, together with the brain CT and MRI findings, we clinically diagnosed the patient as having 'diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification' (DNTC). The characteristics of psychiatric symptoms and neuroradiological findings in DNTC are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1323-1316
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
117-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
A case of diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Fukui Medical University, Fukui, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports