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The Significance of Cranial Computerized Tomography for the Diagnosis of Certain Expansive Lesions of the Midline

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Cranial Computerized Tomography

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Anyone who has worked with CAT can hardly imagine neuroradiologic diagnosis without it. From over 4000 CTs at the Neuroradiology Department of the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main we selected a special group of neuro surgical patients. Without taking in to consideration hypophyseal processes and expansive lesions of the posterior fossa, we had the opportunity to observe 28 cases of space-occupying lesions at the midline of the supratentorial space in which there were neither focal nor lateral neurologic signs (Table 1).

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Thomalske, G., Grau, H., Schäfer, M., Hacker, H. (1976). The Significance of Cranial Computerized Tomography for the Diagnosis of Certain Expansive Lesions of the Midline. In: Lanksch, W., Kazner, E. (eds) Cranial Computerized Tomography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66494-6_11

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