Our goal in designing this study was to attempt to document a clinical means of evaluating patients with minor head injury, possibly reducing the cost of their evaluation. We hypothesized that ...

CT scans offer one way to learn more about the location, size, and shape of a brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a weak or very thin spot on an artery in the brain that bulges out and fills with ...

Scans of a French man's brain were published in The Lancet in 2007. This case has puzzled researchers as it challenges traditional theories of brain function. Brain scans from a 2007 study published ...

The number of head CT scans used during ER visits increased from 7.8 million in 2007 to 16 million between 2007 and 2022, but ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 138 people ...

Children and young adults who are exposed to a single CT scan of the head or neck before age 22 years are at significantly increased risk of developing a brain tumor, particularly glioma, after at ...

CT perfusion and angiography failed to meet sensitivity and specificity thresholds to determine brain death. Neither should be used as standalone tests to establish death by neurologic criteria, the ...