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G Düsterbehn

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Practical co-table for direct coronal CT scanning.

Direct coronal CT scanning can be efficiently performed by a new co-table equipment, which requires a comfortable prone positioning of the patient, whereby the patient must only extend his head slightly. The co-table-unit is linked to the original CT table board directly within a few minutes, coming through the opening of the gantry from the rear. This practical co-table method serves to reduce motion artifacts and to improve image quality significantly. By this method coronal follow-up CT scans are exactly reproducable.

Humans

Nontraumatic intracerebellar hematomas: prognostic value of volumetric evaluation by computed tomography.

Thirty-two consecutive cases of nontraumatic intracerebellar hematomas detected by computed tomography are reviewed. A strong correlation was found between the clinical course and the volumetrically calculated size of the hematomas. Prompt evacuation has the best prognosis in cases that have an acute or subacute course (hematoma size, 22.5 to 66 cm3). Conservative treatment was most successful in chronic cases (hematoma size, 8 to 16 cm3). Surgical treatment should be the treatment of choice in very acute cases also (hematoma size, over 70 cm3) if the hematoma is diagnosed immediately after the onset of bleeding. Early detection and volumetric evaluation by computed tomography have great prognostic value for managing nontraumatic intracerebellar hematomas.

Adolescent