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Computed Tomographic Density Numbers

A Comparative Study of Patients with Senile Dementia and Normal Elderly Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Colgan ,
M. Naguib  and
R. Levy
J. Colgan
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, London
M. Naguib
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London
R. Levy*
Affiliation:
Section of Old Age Psychiatry
*
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SES 8AF, UK.
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Abstract

Cranial computed tomography (CT) scans of 48 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) and 40 normal elderly volunteers were compared. The demented group were found to have significantly larger lateral ventricles assessed planimetrically and by using a linear measure of the ratio of the maximum width of the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles to the maximum intracranial diameter. Attenuation density was computed for 1 5 brain regions. The demented group did not differ significantly from the normal controls with respect to attenuation density In any of the regions studied.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 6 , December 1986 , pp. 716 - 719
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Footnotes

Present address: Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, St CharlesHospital, London W10

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