Imaging of the Nervous System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Cerebrovascular Disease

   • Paul Butler, Margaret D. Hourihan

   Pages 1-37

3. Intracranial Tumours

   • Charles E. L. Freer

   Pages 39-62

4. Hydrocephalus and Degenerative Cerebral Disease

   • W. St Clair Forbes

   Pages 63-84

5. Radiological Aspects of Head and Spinal Trauma

   • Evelyn Teasdale

   Pages 85-105

6. Infections of the Central Nervous System

   • John M. Stevens

   Pages 107-130

7. Paediatric Neuro-imaging

   • Ian W. Turnbull

   Pages 131-157

8. The Spine

   • Nagui M. Antoun

   Pages 159-200

9. Imaging the Orbit

   • Glyn A. S. Lloyd

   Pages 201-218

10. The Petrous Bone

    • Philip L. Anslow

    Pages 219-230

11. Muscle and the Peripheral Nervous System

    • Chandra H. Thakkar, Michael Swash

    Pages 231-239

12. Isotope Brain Imaging

    • Neil W. Garvie

    Pages 241-252

13. Contrast Media and the Central Nervous System

    • Peter Dawson

    Pages 253-265

14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271

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Traditionally, investigation of the nervous system has been primarily a clinical matter. The great era of clinical assessment of patients with neurological disease in the first half of the century was determined by the necessity both to understand the phenomena of neurological disease in relation to structure and function and to localise lesions, in order to facilitate the twin processes of diagnosis and management. Over the years diverse techniques have been applied to clinical practice in order to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. These have comprised extensions of clinical method, for example clinical neuropsychology, electro­ encephalography, radiography of the skull and spine, angiography and other contrast procedures, including the now abandoned technique of air encephalography, and myel­ ography, perhaps itself soon to be little used. Isotope studies of the brain have possibly not realised their full potential in clinical neurology. All these different investigations found an integrated place in clinical management, enhancing the classical clinical database and its associated information, derived from biochemical, immunological and haematological studies. The advent of computerised tomographic X-ray scanning changed all this. The quality of the images derived from CT scanning was so much superior to that obtainable by conventional X-ray methods, and the method was so non-invasive in its conception, that clinical practice in both medical and surgical neurology changed profoundly.

• Bildgebendes Diagnoseverfahren
• Nervensystem
• Nervous System
• Neurologie
• computed tomography (CT)
• diagnosis
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• neurology
• ultrasound

• The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, UK

  Paul Butler

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