A retrospective comparison of CT with histopathologic findings in brain abscesses
Journal of the Korean Radiological Society
;
: 645-651, 1983.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-770322
ABSTRACT
This study was undertaken to examine the possibility of predicting the stage of brain abscess presoperatively,which may markedly influence on the decision how to manage the patients suffering from intracerebral abscesses. Atotal of 17 patients with brain abscesses, who were treated with surgery and diagnosed pathologically, wereretrospectively analyzied with particular attention to the correlation of CT and histopathologic findings. Wefound that preoperative CT findings could not provede any possibility on the decision of abscess staging.Therefore, we suggest that the sequential CT scans should be done in patients with susupectd brain abscess forevaluation of abscess staging.
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Main subject:
Brain
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Brain Abscess
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Retrospective Studies
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Abscess
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Radiological Society
Year:
1983
Type:
Article
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