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Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, X-ray Computed Tomography, Electroencephalography, and Long-Term Outcome After Head Injury: A Prospective Reexamination of 55 Patients

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Head Injuries

Part of the book series: Advances in Neurosurgery ((NEURO,volume 17))

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Abstract

Some authors judge magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be a more sensitive method than high resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) for the assessment of brain pathology after head injury [1,4,5,10–15, 19–24,27,29,31,33–36]. Literature dealing with the artifacts and shortcomings of MRI remains an exception [9]. These publications lead to several questions: Which correlations exist between MRI and CT in the posttraumatic pathology of the brain? What kind of artifacts should one be acquainted with? Does a restitutio integrum after any posttraumatic coma still exist? And is the concept of “commotio” [3,18,25] of further use? Therefore, we reexamined some of our patients by a modified MRI technique [6].

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Moskopp, D., Dewes, W., Solymosi, L., Kurthen, M. (1989). Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, X-ray Computed Tomography, Electroencephalography, and Long-Term Outcome After Head Injury: A Prospective Reexamination of 55 Patients. In: Frowein, R.A., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Head Injuries. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74279-8_4

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