ESPE Abstracts

Fahr's disease is a very rare condition characterized by abnormal, symmetrical, and bilateral deposits of calcifications in the basal ganglia without an identifiable cause. Fahr's disease must be differentiated from Fahr's syndrome, which is also a rare anatomo-clinical entity, characterized by the presence of intracerebral calcifications located in the basal ganglia, most often associated with phosphocalcic metabolism disorders, primarily hypoparathyroidism. Wh...