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. 2018 May 11;13(5):e0197073. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197073

Table 2. Overview of hippocampal calcifications on CT scan and in histological study.

Patient number Hippocampus number CT scan Histology
Severity Severity
1 1 ++ +++
2 ++ +
2 3 +++ +++
4 +++ +++
3 5 +++ +++
4 6 + +
5 7 - -
6 8 - -
7 9 - -

The patient numbers correspond with the patients presented in Table 1.

Severity: whether the calcification is severe +++, moderate ++, mild + or absent -.

CT scoring: absent, mild (one dot), moderate (multiple dots) or severe (confluent) [8].

Histology scoring: absent, mild (less than five vessels affected with calcium), moderate (more than five non-confluent calcified vessels) or severe (more than five confluent calcified vessels that often had large calcium beads).