Editing Primary familial brain calcification (section)

===Differential diagnosis===

Basal ganglia calcification may occur as a consequence of several other known genetic conditions and these have to be excluded before a diagnosis can be made.<ref name=Niwa2008>{{cite journal |vauthors=Niwa A, Naito Y, Kuzuhara S |title=Severe cerebral calcification in a case of LEOPARD syndrome |journal=Intern. Med. |volume=47 |issue=21 |pages=1925–9 |year=2008 |pmid=18981639 |doi=10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1365|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Preusser2007>{{cite journal |vauthors=Preusser M, Kitzwoegerer M, Budka H, Brugger S |title=Bilateral striopallidodentate calcification (Fahr's syndrome) and multiple system atrophy in a patient with longstanding hypoparathyroidism |journal=Neuropathology |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=453–6 |date=October 2007 |pmid=18018479 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00790.x|s2cid=34345069 }}</ref><ref name=Saito2005>{{cite journal |vauthors=Saito Y, Shibuya M, Hayashi M, etal |title=Cerebellopontine calcification: a new entity of idiopathic intracranial calcification? |journal=Acta Neuropathol. |volume=110 |issue=1 |pages=77–83 |date=July 2005 |pmid=15959794 |doi=10.1007/s00401-005-1011-y |s2cid=2726661 |url=http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00401/bibs/5110001/51100077.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212042907/http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00401/bibs/5110001/51100077.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=Tojyo2001>{{cite journal |vauthors=Tojyo K, Hattori T, Sekijima Y, Yoshida K, Ikeda S |title=[A case of idiopathic brain calcification associated with dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria, aplasia of dental root, and aortic valve sclerosis] |language=ja |journal=Rinsho Shinkeigaku |volume=41 |issue=6 |pages=299–305 |date=June 2001 |pmid=11771159 }}</ref>