Autopsy correlations of computerized tomography: experience with 6,000 CT scans: Jacobs L, Kinkel...

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&7ietats. The diregtaosis was contirmed on 281 pa- tients. Brain tumors are readily dete!:table with CAT, @WtidaFly WheR thQ’ ;%F.‘Z bCatd iR the RiidiRe Or posterior fossa. Some degree of differentiation of the type of neopiasm is possibk a4td iocreases the value of CAT. In the case’ of cerebrovascular disease the two studies are synergistic; however, CAT is superior. showing intrkrebral hemorrhage. CAT proved to be more US&II in the invesiigaiicltr oi veti&& Gc- generative disease. In the case where both radio- nuclide scan and CAT are negative, the possibility of the existence of intracranial parenchymal disease (with the exception of vascular diseases such as ar- teritis and zneurysm) is quite remote. In th:: 133 ps-

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&7ietats. The diregtaosis was contirmed on 281 pa- tients.

Brain tumors are readily dete!:table with CAT, @WtidaFly WheR thQ’ ;%F.‘Z bCatd iR the RiidiRe Or

posterior fossa. Some degree of differentiation of the type of neopiasm is possibk a4td iocreases the value of CAT. In the case’ of cerebrovascular disease the two studies are synergistic; however, CAT is superior. showing intrkrebral hemorrhage. CAT proved to be more US&II in the invesiigaiicltr oi veti&& Gc-

generative disease. In the case where both radio- nuclide scan and CAT are negative, the possibility of the existence of intracranial parenchymal disease (with the exception of vascular diseases such as ar- teritis and zneurysm) is quite remote. In th:: 133 ps-