The initial impact of computed tomography on mortality attributed to brain tumor.
The exponential growth in the number of computed tomography scanners in the United States between 1975 and 1977 was associated with a transient increase (11.9 and 14.4% for men and women, respectively) in annual crude mortality rates for primary malignant brain tumor from 1976 through 1978.  This transient increase in mortality appears to have been an artifactual epiphenomenon associated with the introduction of a new technology.
Departments of Neurology, Medicine, and Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown 26506.
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