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A scintigraphic study of brain contusion confronted us again with the problem of the blood-brain barrier. It is generally accepted that damage of the blood-brain barrier is a cause of scintigraphic visualization of a brain lesion. However, the problem in brain tumors is quite different from that in brain contusion. It should be remembered that in tumors we are dealing with non-cerebral tissue. Their visualization in fact is dependent on the presence or absence of a blood-tumor barrier. Brain contusion serves as a pure model to study scintigraphically the damage of the blood-brain barrier itself.
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Penning, L., Front, D. (1973). Blood Brain Barrier and Scintigraphy. In: Schürmann, K., Brock, M., Reulen, HJ., Voth, D. (eds) Brain Edema / Cerebello Pontine Angle Tumors. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65734-4_4
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