1. Advancements In Diagnostic Imaging Techniques Of The Brain
... that results in enlarged ventricles and sulci (Williams and Haughton 250-52). Atrophy may be a result of trauma, inflamation, cerebrovascular disease, demyelinating disease, alcoholism, chemotherapy, radiation, hypoxia, Alzheimer's disease, or Jakob-Creutzfelt disease, although the features of a CT scan are not specific, diseases such as Alzheimer's may at times result in rapid progressively shrinkage of the brain which with sequential CT scans ... procedures performed for evaluation purposes, largely in part due to the over utilization of such procedures as the CAT scan in the past. Ul...
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