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Echoencephalographs of 100 consecutive acute psychiatric admissions
Author(s) -
Daum Conrad H.,
McKinney William M.,
Proctor Richard C.,
Barnes Ralph W.,
Potter Patty
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870040505
Subject(s) - medicine , echoencephalography , incidence (geometry) , echo (communications protocol) , radiology , computer network , physics , computer science , optics
Echoencephalography (ECHO) on 100 consecutive acute short‐term psychiatric admissions showed a high (12 per cent) incidence of abnormalities. Incidence of midline ECHO abnormalities was 2 per cent, comparable to similar studies. Ventricular enlargement accounted for the majority of ECHO abnormalities. This study also confirmed a previous report of a relationship between third ventricular size and response to treatment. Use of the ECHO as a screening test for these patients was safe and rapid. Correlative studies tended to confirm ECHO findings.