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Computed Tomography

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Dementia

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Computed tomography (CT) was introduced in the 1970s as the first non-invasive method of examining intracranial structures. In clinical practice, it rapidly replaced cerebral angiography and pneumoencephalography and its role in clinical neuroscience became established for the diagnosis and assessment of brain tumours, head injuries and cerebrovascular accidents. In dementia, CT has been used primarily to exclude intracerebral lesions responsible for coarse brain damage with resulting dementia. The yield of CT in this area has been revealed elsewhere (Byrne, 1987; Philpot and Burns, 1989) and is dealt with in Chapter 3.

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    Alistair Burns (Professor of Old Age Psychiatry) (Professor of Old Age Psychiatry)

  2. Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

    Raymond Levy (Professor of Old Age Psychiatry) (Professor of Old Age Psychiatry)

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Burns, A., Pearlson, G. (1994). Computed Tomography. In: Burns, A., Levy, R. (eds) Dementia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6805-6_23

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