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9928904

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
We evaluated the prevalence and the size of epithalamus calcifications (EC) and choroid plexus calcifications (CPC) on computed tomography (CT) scans in a group of 64 schizophrenic patients and in a group of 31 healthy controls. The associations between cerebral calcifications, demographic variables, and other brain morphological characteristics (particularly cerebral ventricular size and cortical atrophy) in both, patients and controls, were also considered. A significant increase in size of the epithalamic-region calcifications in schizophrenic patients was found, whereas there was no evidence of increase in both, dimension and prevalence, of choroid plexus calcification. Such dimensional increase was unrelated to the duration of illness and therefore did not seem to be iatrogenic or secondary to the disease. A correlation was found between epithalamus calcifications and cortical atrophy and third-ventricle enlargement, suggesting that calcifications of this cerebral region may be associated with lesions of third-periventricular areas and of circuitries hypothesized to be involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0940-1334
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
248
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
272-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-5-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Epithalamus calcifications in schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry Unit, Pad. Guardia II., Milan, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial