"SWI: usually less reliable than CT for detecting very small/punctate calcifications in mLSV, hence CT remains the modality of choice for confirming basal ganglia tiny calcifications 2"
"Mineralising lenticulostriate vasculopathy is a distinct disease from mineralisng microangiopathy, which occurs as a complication of cranial radiotherapy and chemotherapy and is characterised by parenchymal cerebral calcifications in the corticomedullary junctions, basal ganglia lentiform nuclei and cerebellar dentate nuclei."
"Other causes of intracranial calcifications, such as TORCH infections, Fahr disease, and primary hypoparathyroidism 2."