The role of computed axial tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of brain inflammatory and parasitic lesions: Our experience in Mexico

✍ Scribed by J. C. Rodríguez; R. A. Gutiérrez; O. D. Valdés; J. F. Dorfsman

• Book ID: 104754902
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 926 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0028-3940
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00395332

✦ Synopsis

Computed axial tomography has come to be a most useful procedure in the selection, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with inflammatory and parasitic lesions of the brain, because it allows a more accurate localization and definition of the histologic nature of lesions. Conventional contrast X-ray studies are not to be abandoned, but they do present a certain risk and do not provide the same degree of accuracy as CAT. Cerebral angiography will have to be carried out when CAT shows pathologic lesions.