Cranial Computed Tomography in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

James Davis, J Ploetz, Kenneth R. Davis, Peter McC. Black, Nicholas T. Zervas

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography · 1980 · 11 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

We compared the results of cranial computed tomography (CT) and lumbar puncture (LP) in patients who had subarachnoid hemorrhage due to proven ruptured intracranial aneurysm. We found no correlation between the number of red blood cells in the cerebrospinal fluid collected by LP and the amount and extent of blood detected by CT.