Fallacies of Routine CT Scan in Identifying Lesions in Severe Head Injury

Though CT scan is a common and reliable tool for diagnosis in severe head injury, may a times there is no detectable lesion seen in the CT scan of a patient with severe head injury to explain the neurological status. Literature search did not reveal any study which has systematically analyzed the fa...

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Main Authors: Ashis Pathak, Dalbir Singh, N Khandelwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2006-06-01
Series:The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma
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Online Access:http://www.ijntonline.com/June06/abstracts/07.PDF