Local experience of CT scanning in neurosurgical cases

ABSTRACT

Between 1984 and 1994, the author studied 4500 Cranial Scans. Limited availability of the C. T. Scan in Pakistan is responsible for a bias in patient selection, those with obvious clinical signs of an S.O.L. and those requiring emergency operation i.e. traumatic mass lesions, abscesses, tuberculoma etc., form a sizeable proportion of the pathologies detected with C.T in Pakistan. Chronic, less urgent neurological disorders are seen less frequentle