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A Cecchini

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[EEG-CT correlates in a group of patients with acute and focal cerebral vascular disorders].

A retrospective study was performed on 120 patients with cerebrovascular accidents in order to correlate EEG, CT and clinical data. A high degree of correlation was found between EEG and CT findings and between these laboratory tests and clinical picture in those subjects with ischemia in the carotid territory. Furthermore the combined use of EEG and CT testing improves the diagnostic validity of both methods.

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[Clinical and CT findings in ischaemic cerebrovascular diseases (author's transl)].

120 patients with an ischaemic stroke visualized by computerized tomography were investigated: the clinical examination of the patients (double-blind study) showed a wrong diagnosis in 15,8%, the topographic diagnosis was correct in a much higher percentage (81%). Possible relationships between clinical severity, CT localization and extension of the damage were investigated; a statistically significant relationship was ascertained only in the group of 38 cases who were examined within 21 days from the stroke. The site and extension of the lesion did not seem to influence the clinical evolution or to be a good prognostic indicator in this study.

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[(Negative) CT findings in subjects with ischaemic strokes (author's transl)].

50 subjects who had one or several ischaemic attacks without detectable attenuation area in the CT scan were examined. CT findings grouped as follows: normal, cortical generalized atrophy and cortical localized atrophy with or without ventricular or cysternal enlargement, diffuse cortical and ventricular atrophy. The relationships between CT scan, clinical evolution, number of ischaemic attacks and predisposing risk factors were also considered. The mainly morphological value of CT and the limited dynamic and functional aspects of this technique are emphasized in agreement with other authors.

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[CT findings in chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency (author's transl)].

CT examination in 100 patients affected by chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency showed a normal picture in 16 cases, while 84 subjects showed different degrees of atrophy, generalised and focal, controlateral or sometime omolateral to the infarct, with differing patterns. The mean age of subjects with normal CT was significantly lower in comparison with patients with definite atrophy. Besides the neurological picture and the time course, the patients' psychiatric status was also assessed: no definite relationship seems to exist between psychiatric disturbances and brain atrophy. Pseudobulbar syndrome was found in 46 cases and many of them showed cortical and mainly ventricular atrophy. This picture was very seldom found in patients with vertebro-basilar insufficiency. Localised cortical atrophy, on the contrary, was often associated with ischaemic stroke. The incidence of predisposing risk factors (hypertension, diabetes mellitus or high lipid levels) was greater in subjects with brain atrophy and older age than in patients with normal CT scan.

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