[
    {
        "id": "osp-10182",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Physiological Intracranial Calcifications in Children: A computed tomography-based study",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al Hajri",
                "given": "Faiza"
            },
            {
                "family": "Sirasanagandla",
                "given": "Srinivasa R."
            },
            {
                "family": "Boudaka",
                "given": "Ammar"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al Dhuhli",
                "given": "Humoud"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al Ajmi",
                "given": "Eiman"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/ar/articles/physiological-intracranial-calcifications-in-children-a-computed-tomography-based-study",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "23",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "227-232",
        "DOI": "10.18295/squmj.9.2022.058",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Objectives: This study aimed to examined the frequency of physiological intracranial calcifications (PICs) in paediatric population using computed tomography (CT). Methods: The brain CT scans of consecutive patients (age range: 0–15 years) who had visited Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, from January 2017 to December 2020 were retrospectively assessed for the presence of PICs. The presence of calcifications was identified using 3 mm-thick axial images and coronal and sagittal reformats. Results: A total of 460 patients were examined, with a mean age of 6.54 ± 4.94 years. The frequency of PIC in boys and girls was 35.1% and 35.4%, respectively. PICs were most common in choroid plexus, observed in 35.2% (age range: 0.4–15 years, median: 12 years) of subjects, followed by the pineal gland in 21.1% (age range: 0.5–15 years, median: 12 years) and the habenular nucleus in 13.0% of subjects (age range: 2.9–15 years; median: 12 years). PICs were less common in falx cerebri, observed in 5.9% (age range: 2.8–15 years; median: 13 years) of subjects, and tentorium cerebelli, observed in 3.0% (age range: 7–15 years, median: 14 years) of subjects. PICs increased significantly with increase in age (P"
    }
]