Despite the clinical relevance of diagnosing AIH using brain CT scans—false negatives may delay correct diagnosis, which can cause devastating consequences, whereas false positives will lead to ...
Among common neurological problems, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most prevalent and poses one of the most important burdens on public health 1. A head computed tomography (CT) scan, an ...
A study found that 1 in 6 older adults with delirium in the emergency department (ED) had abnormal findings on head CT, even without traditional risk factors for intracranial pathology. Researchers ...
Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...
There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated.