Early onset bilateral calcifications and epilepsy

Epilepsy and intracranial calcification of unknown origin

“…In summary, the calcification pattern in our patient is not consistent with any of the well known diseases considered under the epileptic syndromes associated with intracranial calcification. Various authors [2,4,9] have described patients with intracranial calcification of unknown origin and epilepsy, some of which have a genetic predisposition and are associated with growth retardation, visual disturbances and motor abnormalities. The involvement described by these authors was not as diffuse as in our case and, to our knowledge, ours is the first case of symptomatic partial epilepsy associated with an idiopathic diffuse calcification involving the parietal, occipital, frontal lobes and basal ganglia.…”