Prevalence, Anatomical Distribution, and Morphometric Characteristics of Intracranial Calcifications on Computed Tomography: A Retrospective Original Research Study

Volume 13 No 4 (2015)

Dr Karthika, Dr. Rajendran M

DOI: 10.48047/NQ.2015.13.4.885

Abstract

Calcium and occasionally iron deposition in the blood vessels of various brain structures causes intracranial calcification .Physiological intracranial calcification are common in both male and female at any age and any ethnicity. This study involved 100 patients of which 81 were male and 19 were female with age range between 20 and 70 years

Keywords

calcifications, pineal gland, choroid plexus, basal ganglia, falx cerebri

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