title: Computerised axial tomography in posterior fossa lesions.
abstract: The author found that 191 patients out of the first 6000 examined by the EMI brain scanner had lesions in the posterior fossa. Appearances in acoustic tumours, meningiomas, astrocytomas, haemangioblastomas, medulloblastomas, gliomas of the brain stem and metastases are described.
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005910:Glioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012886:Skull; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed