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What is expected of CT in the evaluation of stroke?
A M Wang1, J C Lin, C L Rumbaugh
1Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Neuroradiology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This study was based on 5042 cranial CT examinations in a 2-year period. 19.8% of all cranial CT scans were performed for confirmation or evaluation of clinically suspected stroke. 87% of the clinical diagnoses of stroke were confirmed by CT scan. Intracranial hemorrhage made up a small percentage in this study. The establishment of this diagnosis was a valuable service in the patients' management. Brain tumor may rarely present clinical symptoms mimicking stroke and may have a normal CT initially.