PMC9968442_01
Noncontrast CT of the head showing bilateral basal ganglia calcification with hyperattenuation of the left putamen (red arrows)
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FIG1
The non-contrast CT showed bilateral basal ganglia calcification with hyperattenuation of the left putamen and evidence of age-related parenchymal volume loss and chronic microvascular ischemia (Figure 1).
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VID1
The MRI obtained six hours later and prior to the adequate normalization of the blood glucose level or the resolution of the symptoms failed to correlate with the CT findings and did not show left putamen signal intensity changes on T1/T2 or diffusion-weighted images (Figure 2 and Video 2).