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Cluster Headache ‐ Pneumoencephalographic and Cerebral Computerized Axial Tomography Findings
Author(s) -
Russell D.,
Nakstad P.,
Sjaastad O.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1978.hed1805272.x
Subject(s) - pneumoencephalography , medicine , radiology , cerebral atrophy , nuclear medicine , computed tomography , atrophy , cerebral ventriculography , tomography , hydrocephalus , pathology , magnetic resonance imaging
SYNOPSIS Twenty‐eight cluster headache patients have been examined by CT scanning (Delta scan 25), during symptomatic cluster periods. Prior to the introduction of CT scanning, 14 of these patients had been examined by pneumoencephalography, the interval between the two investigations varying between two and six years. Borderline enlargement of the ventricles was assessed as being present in three of the pneumoencephalographic examinations, but in only one of the CT scan examinations. One other patient showed slight cortical atrophy on both pneumoencephalography and CT scanning. None of the 28 patients examined by CT scanning showed cerebral parenchymal low densitometric areas, similar to those previously described on CT scan examination of some patients with severe migraine.