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In order to evaluate if it is practically possible to assess the volume of contused brain tissue from the CT pictures, a comparison has been carried out between the size of the cerebral contusion(s)-as estimated from the CT scans-and the post-traumatic CSF-CKBB activity, in a series of 29 patients with severe head injury. A clearance curve for the elimination of CKBB from the CSF was constructed.
The relation between contusion volume and CSF-CKBB-activity was not statistically significant, while the relationships between contusion volume and outcome, and between CSF-CKBB, as estimated at 6 hours after trauma from the clearance curve, and outcome, were.
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Rabow, L., Cook, D., Lipper, M.H. et al. Relationship between CT attenuation changes and post-traumatic CSF-CKBB-activity after severe head injury in man. Acta neurochir 100, 155–157 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403604
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