[Cranial computertomography in multiple sclerosis (author's transl)]

Report on 59 patients with multiple sclerosis who additionally to other examinations were subjected an examination by cranial computerized tomography. The findings were unobtrusive in 6 cases (10,2%). Cerebral atrophy was found in 34 patients (57,6%), hypodensic regions in 28 patients (47,5%) and both alterations simultaneously in 15 patients (25,4%). One female patient with a recent episode at first showed a region with contrast enhancement, which became later isodensic, at the same time a cerebral atrophy developed. Cranial computerized tomography in patients with multiple sclerosis represents an enrichment of diagnostic possibilities.