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Bilateral calcifications in the basal ganglia, and frontal and parietal lobes of a patient with coeliac disease.

Yildirim SV, Tiker F, Barutcu O, Cengiz N

Department of Paediatrics, Baskent University Medical Faculty, Adana Hospital, Adana Hastanesi Cocuk Bolumu, 01140 Seyhan-Adana, Turkey. svefay@yahoo.com

Previous authors have described a specific syndrome of coeliac disease, bilateral cerebral calcifications and epileptic seizures. We report a 4-year-old boy with coeliac disease who had bilateral calcifications in the basal ganglia and frontal and parietal lobes, but did not exhibit epileptic seizures.

Published 14 June 2005 in Pediatr Radiol, 35(7): 710-2.
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