title: Relationship between CT attenuation changes and post-traumatic CSF-CKBB-activity after severe head injury in man.
abstract: In order to evaluate if it is practically possible to assess the volume of contused brain tissue from the CT pictures, a comparison has been carried out between the size of the cerebral contusion(s)--as estimated from the CT scans--and the post-traumatic CSF-CKBB activity, in a series of 29 patients with severe head injury. A clearance curve for the elimination of CKBB from the CSF was constructed. The relation between contusion volume and CSF-CKBB-activity was not statistically significant, while the relationships between contusion volume and outcome, and between CSF-CKBB, as estimated at 6 hours after from the clearance curve, and outcome, were.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rabow
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lipper
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: DeSalles
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Gruemer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marmarou
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000201:enzymology; D002648:Child; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D003402:Creatine Kinase