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2599825

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
From 6,300 psychiatric admissions over a 37 month period, all 54 patient referrals for CT were identified and their charts reviewed. CT influenced diagnosis, management or prognosis in 11.7 percent of patients scanned. There was poor correlation between organicity on CT scan and findings on physical examination, laboratory testing, EEG and psychological testing. The mental state examination was the single significant correlate of CT abnormality. We suggest that the use of a formalised mental state examination such as the Mini Mental State, in addition to the usual clinical assessment of mental state, may improve the accuracy of prediction of abnormality on CT scan. The introduction of X-ray computed tomography (CT) is recognised to be one of the most important innovations in the recent history of clinical medicine. In neurology the value of a non-invasive technique for examining the intracranial contents was quickly realised in the areas of diagnosis, particularly in the detection of vascular accidents and tumours. CT has also attained a significant place in psychiatry. In research studies, it has provided important information on schizophrenia, alcoholism and chronic organic reactions. The place of CT in clinical psychiatry is less clear. As its availability has increased, such scans are being requested with increasing frequency in psychiatric patients. Cranial CT is a highly sensitive diagnostic procedure which, when used unselectively, may result in the discovery of incidental findings. Until recently, a function of the psychiatrist in relation to diagnosis was to first seek to distinguish symptoms produced by organic pathology from those produced by functional illness.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-1265
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
158
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
178-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
An evaluation of cranial CT scanning in clinical psychiatry.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't