title: The role of computed axial tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of brain inflammatory and parasitic lesions: our experience in Mexico.
abstract: Computed axial tomography has come to be a most useful procedure in the selection, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with inflammatory and parasitic lesions of the brain, because it allows a more accurate localization and definition of the histologic nature of lesions. Conventional contrast X-ray studies are not to be abandoned, but they do present a certain risk and do not provide the same degree of accuracy as CAT. Cerebral angiography will have to be carried out when CAT shows pathologic lesions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging