Extensive brain calcification and progressive dysarthria and dysphagia associated with chronic hypoparathyroidism
J. C. Cheek, J. E. Riggs and R. L. Lilly
Department of Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown.
An 81-year-old woman with a 13-year history of hypoparathyroidism developed
dysarthria and dysphagia. Cranial computed tomography demonstrated
extensive calcification involving the basal ganglia, corona radiata, and
deep cerebellar structures. The cerebral small-vessel calcification that
occurs in chronic hypoparathyroidism may produce the syndrome of
progressive dysarthria and dysphagia.
