How many cranial CT scans does a man need?

IF 2.3 Q2 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.1136/pn-2024-004447

Josef G Heckmann, Martin Breckner, Michael Reng

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Abstract

A 61-year-old man had epilepsy related to chronic alcoholism and occipito-temporal porencephaly. Over a span of 19 years, he had been admitted to our institution 227 times, undergoing 55 CT scans of the head and 11 CT scans of the cervical spine. His blood alcohol concentrations varied between 1.9 g/L and 5.1 g/L. We discuss the challenges of emergency management of patients with alcoholism and seizures and the overuse of radiological examinations.

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一个男人需要做多少次脑部CT扫描？

一个61岁的男性癫痫与慢性酒精中毒和枕颞孔颅畸形。在19年的时间里，他被我院收治了227次，接受了55次头部CT扫描和11次颈椎CT扫描。他的血液酒精浓度在1.9克/升到5.1克/升之间。我们讨论了酗酒和癫痫患者的紧急管理和过度使用放射检查的挑战。

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PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY Medicine-Neurology (clinical)

CiteScore

3.70

自引率

3.60%

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113

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