Difficulties in diagnosis of supratentorial gliomas by CAT scan.
The false positive and false negative computed tomography diagnoses of glioma made using an EMI 1010 machine on a consecutive series of patients seen over a period of two years are recorded. About 1.5% of gliomas were not detected on initial CAT scan, 6.5% were misdiagnosed as benign lesions, and in 6.5% of the cases identified as glioma a non-malignant condition was subsequently diagnosed.
D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000528:radiation effects; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005910:Glioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed