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The Reliability of Scintillation Scanning for Detection of Intracranial Lesions¹

Baltimore, Maryland

ABSTRACT

Comparative data of 522 brain scintigrams and the final clinical and pathological diagnoses are presented. Eighty-three percent of the histologically proven neoplasms of the anterior and middle cranial fossae were correctly identified and localized by radioisotope scanning. Certain vascular lesions, particularly those associated with infarction, may be detected by this procedure, although a true estimate of the accuracy of localization of such lesions is not possible in view of the difficulty in identifying and characterizing their nature without histologic findings.

FOOTNOTES

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Radioisotope Laboratory, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

² Fellow in Medicine, Radioisotope Laboratory, University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.

³ Associate Professor of Medicine, Director Radioisotope Laboratory, University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.

⁴ Reprint requests should be directed to Dr. Workman.