Autopsy correlations of computerized tomography: experience with 6,000 CT scans.
Seventy-nine autopsy correlations of CT scans showed (1) excellent correlations in normal brains, but the size of the lateral ventricles consistently larger during life than after death; (2) a distinctive pattern differentiating obstructive from nonobstructive hydrocephalus; (3) infarctions appearing as areas of decreased densities of parenchyma in vascular distributions; (4) distinctive high density appearances of hemorrhages that differentiated them from infarctions and, in general, all other pathologic processes; (5) supratentorial, intraventricular, and posterior fossa tumors appearing as masses that displaced, distorted, collapsed, and enlarged normal spaces and structures such as ventricles and pineal gland; (6) 11 false-negative CT scans in some cases of brain stem infarction, brain stem hemorrhage, and small metastasis; and (7) an overall accuracy of 86.2 percent of CT scanning in correctly identifying pathology of the brain.
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology