Cerebral haemorrhages with atypical clinical patterns. A study of cerebral haematomasusing CSF spectrophotometry and computerized transverse axial tomography ("EMI scanning").
Twelve patients with 13 cerebrovascular incidents presenting with atypical clincial patterns where thecombination of CSF  spectrophotometry (CSF-SPE) and computerized transverse axialtomogrpahy(CTAT, "EMI-scanning") showed cerebral haematomas, with or without haemorrhage into the CSFare reported. The high diagnostic significance of SDF-SPE as well as the value of using a combination of CSF-SPE and CTAT examinations in cerebrovascular disease has preveiouslybeen  established by the authors. The present patient group comprised some 10% of a totalseries of patients with cerebrovascular disease hitherto studied in this fashion. Conclusive findings were found in only 1 fo the 5 cases examined by angiography and in none of the5 cases studied by isotope scan. Since many cerebral haemorrhages obviosly haveatypical clincalfeatures as compared with the "classical" pattern, the combined use of CSF-SPE and CTAT examinations in the diagnosis of cerebral haematomas is a prereguisite for rational therapy.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000032:analysis* / Q000166:cytology; D002556:Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods*
D002556:Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins