A Japanese family with idiopathic basal ganglia calcification with novel SLC20A2 mutation presenting with late-onset hallucination and delusion

J Neurol. 2014 Jan;261(1):242-4. doi: 10.1007/s00415-013-7205-7. Epub 2013 Dec 10.

Authors

Kensaku Kasuga¹, Takuya Konno, Kento Saito, Ayako Ishihara, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Takeshi Ikeuchi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1 Asahimachi, Chuo-ku, Niigata, 951-8585, Japan, [email protected].

PMID: 24323245
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-013-7205-7

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Basal Ganglia Diseases / complications
Basal Ganglia Diseases / genetics*
Calcinosis / complications
Calcinosis / genetics*
DNA Mutational Analysis
Delusions / complications
Delusions / genetics*
Family Health*
Female
Hallucinations / complications
Hallucinations / genetics*
Humans
Japan
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Mutation / genetics*
Sodium-Phosphate Cotransporter Proteins, Type III / genetics*

Substances

SLC20A2 protein, human
Sodium-Phosphate Cotransporter Proteins, Type III

Supplementary concepts

Basal ganglia calcification, idiopathic 2