[Intracerebral, non-arteriosclerotic vascular calcification: Fahr's disease]

Of 15,000 post-mortem examinations performed in a general hospital between 1977-85 primary symmetric intracerebral calcification i. e. Fahr's disease was found in 4 cases. The pathological characteristics of the cases are described and the clinical, radiological and endocrinological aspects of the disease are discussed.