title: The role of brain scanning in the differential diagnosis of seizures.
abstract: Of 200 patients with seizures who had brain scans, the studies were abnormal in 86% of patients with tumours and in 67% of those with strokes. The scan detected 84% of the 19 potentially curable lesions. There were no false positive studies. Seventy-nine per cent of patients with seizures of less than one year's duration had an abnormal scan; however, the scan was also abnormal in 22% of patients with non-focal seizures of less than one year's duration.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000150:complications; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging