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The use of computerised tomography in mental handicap patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. K. Lekh ,
B. K. Puri  and
I. Singh
S. K. Lekh
Affiliation:
Charing Cross and Westminster Rotation, London
B. K. Puri
Affiliation:
Charing Cross and Westminster Rotation, London
I. Singh
Affiliation:
Leavesden and Hillingdon Hospitals
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Since its inception (Hounsfield, 1973), computerised tomography (CT) has become an invaluable diagnostic and research tool, particularly in clinical neurology and neurosurgery. Clinically, CT has proved useful in differentiating between ‘functional’ and ‘organic’ psychiatric disorders where it is particularly helpful in the diagnosis of potentially treatable organic disorders. For example, Owens et al (1980) found clinically unsuspected intracranial pathology in 12 of 136 chronic schizophrenic patients examined by CT and Roberts & Lishman (1984) found diagnosis, management, and/or prognosis were influenced in approximately 12% of cases referred by psychiatrists for CT imagining.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 616 - 618
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

References

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