Intracranial Abnormalities Requiring Emergency Treatmentcolon; Identification by a Single Midline Tomographic Slice Versus Complete CT of the Head

摘要

We retrospectively reviewed 89 noncontrast computerized tomographic scans of the head in trauma patients to determine whether a single midline image could reliably identify intracranial lesions significant enough to warrant emergency surgery. We found that a midline cut was able to detect 92percnt; of all lesions for which emergency neurosurgical evacuation was considered necessary, though it detected only 71percnt; of the more subtle abnormalities.