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Stuck between a rock & a hard place when it comes to brain calcifications?!   Calcification pattern is key to rocking the diagnosis!   Here's a quick guide to the most common entities associated w/different patterns   For the three most common patterns, I remember what you do when ROCK music plays:   I HeaR = Infection & Hematoma give a Rock pattern I GYRate = Infarct give a GYRiform And finally... I Dab = Infection gives tiny Dabs or Dots everywhere   For the rest: If they are grouped: think tumor or vascular If they are diffusion: think metabolic If they are along the ventricle: think TORCH   Now hopefully you can rock & roll when it comes to the diagnoses for intracranial calcifications!