Computed tomographic brain scanning in intraparenchymal pyogenic abscesses

Excessive thoracic computed tomographic scanning in sarcoidosis.

BACKGROUND The clinical value of computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the chest in the initial assessment of sarcoidosis was investigated. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients referred to the sarcoidosis outpatient services of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York from 1990 to 1992 with a presumptive diagnosis of sarcoidosis were studied. The diagnosis was subsequently confirmed in al...

Multiple pyogenic brain abscesses: an analysis of 21 patients.

Multiple pyogenic brain abscesses constituted 11.7% (21 patients) of a series of 179 consecutive patients with brain abscess treated from 1976 to 1984. The commonest cause of these abscesses was congenital cyanotic heart disease (38%), followed by middle ear infection (19%). Two thirds of these patients were in the first two decades of life. The clinical presentation was similar to brain absces...

Preenhanced computed tomographic findings in brain death.

A patient complying with the clinical criteria for brain death was studied by preenhanced computed tomography (CT). Preenhanced CT showed apparent increased density at the base of the brain along the course of the major arterial vessels, and abnormally dense-appearing deep venous structures, like those of contrast-enhanced CT. There was a diffuse decrease in brain density with a poorly delineat...

Cerebral aspergillosis simulating pyogenic abscesses.

Departments of 1. Radiology and 2. Anatomopathology, Cliniques Universitaires SaintLuc, Bruxelles, Belgium Background: A 29-year-young male patient with a history of HIV for approximately 4 years ago was admitted to the department of Internal Medicine for fever, with a headache resistant to analgesics. He also presented nausea without vomiting, and the fever persisted despite antibiotic treatme...

Measuring the clinical impact of thoracic computed tomographic scanning.