title: Cerebral occipital calcifications in celiac disease.
abstract: Bilateral occipital calcifications, occurring in celiac disease, are factors coming under a particular cerebral syndrome, which also includes epilepsy, migraine-like headache, visual troubles and mental deterioration. They seem to arise from hypofolatemia following gluten-induced enteropathy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuropsychiatry, Angeli Custodi Children's Hospital, Trento, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Crosato
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Senter
mesh_terms: D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013341:Sturge-Weber Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed