You need JavaScript to view this

Normal CT in infants and children

Abstract

There have been several reports as to normal CT in children. However, they included children with convulsions as normal subjects. In our experience, children with convulsions have an enlargement of the subdural space in the frontal region. Therefore, we studied CT in children without convulsions. Of the 10,000 patients examined with EMI 1000 or EMI 1010 at Kyoto Univ. Hospital from 1976 to 1979, 110 children could be classified into the following types according to their symptoms: 1) Type-1 head injury, without abnormalities in CT resulting from this injury, 2) non-migraining headaches, and 3) others without CT abnormalities who were routinely examined. Previous studies have shown that the enlargement of the subdural space in the frontal region was not abnormal under one year. However, the present study has shown that it was not dilated in children without convulsions. We stressed the usefulness of our newly calculated basal cistern index, because the SD was small and could be readily indentified (this index was under 0.29 in most cases; their SD's were 0.04 in those under one year and 0.02 over one year). The other data were not so different from those of previous studies.
Authors:
Takao, T; Okuno, T; Ito, M; Konishi, Y; Yoshioka, M [1] 
  1. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Medicine
Publication Date:
Oct 01, 1980
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
AIX-13-696125; EDB-82-166202
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: CT Kenkyu; (Japan); Journal Volume: 2:5
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; BRAIN; CAT SCANNING; CHILDREN; INFANTS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS; ATROPHY; NEUROLOGY; PEDIATRICS; REFERENCE MAN; AGE GROUPS; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; MEDICINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; TOMOGRAPHY; 550602* - Medicine- External Radiation in Diagnostics- (1980-)
OSTI ID:
6779702
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: CTKED
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: 545-550
Announcement Date:
Sep 01, 1982

Citation Formats

Takao, T, Okuno, T, Ito, M, Konishi, Y, and Yoshioka, M. Normal CT in infants and children. Japan: N. p., 1980. Web.
Takao, T, Okuno, T, Ito, M, Konishi, Y, & Yoshioka, M. Normal CT in infants and children. Japan.
Takao, T, Okuno, T, Ito, M, Konishi, Y, and Yoshioka, M. 1980. "Normal CT in infants and children." Japan.
@misc{etde_6779702,
title = {Normal CT in infants and children}
author = {Takao, T, Okuno, T, Ito, M, Konishi, Y, and Yoshioka, M}
abstractNote = {There have been several reports as to normal CT in children. However, they included children with convulsions as normal subjects. In our experience, children with convulsions have an enlargement of the subdural space in the frontal region. Therefore, we studied CT in children without convulsions. Of the 10,000 patients examined with EMI 1000 or EMI 1010 at Kyoto Univ. Hospital from 1976 to 1979, 110 children could be classified into the following types according to their symptoms: 1) Type-1 head injury, without abnormalities in CT resulting from this injury, 2) non-migraining headaches, and 3) others without CT abnormalities who were routinely examined. Previous studies have shown that the enlargement of the subdural space in the frontal region was not abnormal under one year. However, the present study has shown that it was not dilated in children without convulsions. We stressed the usefulness of our newly calculated basal cistern index, because the SD was small and could be readily indentified (this index was under 0.29 in most cases; their SD's were 0.04 in those under one year and 0.02 over one year). The other data were not so different from those of previous studies.}
journal = []
volume = {2:5}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1980}
month = {Oct}
}