Objective:To explore the clinical features of Fahr's disease and enhance the clinician's understanding of the disease.Method:Through a familial survey of Fahr's disease and review of relevant literature, We expound the diagnostic criteria, genetic characteristics, pathology, imaging findings and clinical characteristics of Fahr's disease.Results:The cases are accord with the diagnostic criteria of familial Fahr's disease and are autosomal dominant.Conclutions:Fahr's disease is a rare clinical entity characterized by neurological, psychiatric, and cognitive abnormalities related to symmetric and bilateral calcifications of the basal ganglia and other regions.
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