PMID- 12119087
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020812
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0269-9052 (Print)
IS  - 0269-9052 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 6
DP  - 2002 Jun
TI  - Quantitive imaging in late traumatic brain injury. Part I: late imaging 
      parameters in closed and penetrating head injuries.
PG  - 517-25
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the value of relatively simple quantitative radiologic 
      measurements after head injury. Despite major advances in neuroradiology, 
      analysis and reporting of imaging studies is based primarily on individual 
      subjective and local experience, rather than on reproducible, standardized 
      parameters; reliance on newer technologies can improve care, but also raises 
      diagnostic costs. DESIGN: Blinded, retrospective, quantitative assessment of 
      computerized tomography studies done some 14 years post-injury. OUTCOME MEASURES: 
      Frontal horn width (FHW); septum-caudate distance (SCD); temporal horn width 
      (THW); interuncal distance (IUD); third ventricle width (3VW); ventricular score 
      (VS); sulcal width (SW); gray-white matter discriminability (GWMD) and subjective 
      assessment of atrophy (SAOA). RESULTS: Diffuse and frontal damage was noted in 
      both closed (CHI) and penetrating (PHI) head injury groups. Enlargement of 
      frontal lobe parameters (septum caudate distance and frontal horn width suggest 
      frontal injury in both closed and penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI). 
      Temporal horn width and inter-uncal distance were related to VS, 3VW and FHW in 
      closed, but not in penetrating head injury. CONCLUSIONS: Simple linear CSF space 
      measurements are correlated with volumetric and parenchymal measures, and can 
      represent valuable and reliable low-cost quantitative measures of long term brain 
      damage after TBI.
FAU - Reider-Groswasser, Irith I
AU  - Reider-Groswasser II
AD  - Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program, Ra'anana, Israel.
FAU - Groswasser, Zeev
AU  - Groswasser Z
FAU - Ommaya, Alexander K
AU  - Ommaya AK
FAU - Schwab, Karen
AU  - Schwab K
FAU - Pridgen, Anthony
AU  - Pridgen A
FAU - Brown, Herbert R
AU  - Brown HR
FAU - Cole, Reginald
AU  - Cole R
FAU - Salazar, Andres M
AU  - Salazar AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Brain Inj
JT  - Brain injury
JID - 8710358
SB  - IM
MH  - Atrophy
MH  - Brain/*diagnostic imaging/pathology
MH  - Cerebral Ventricles/pathology
MH  - Cerebral Ventriculography
MH  - Head Injuries, Closed/*diagnostic imaging/pathology
MH  - Head Injuries, Penetrating/*diagnostic imaging/pathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
EDAT- 2002/07/18 10:00
MHDA- 2002/08/13 10:01
CRDT- 2002/07/18 10:00
PHST- 2002/07/18 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/08/13 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/07/18 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/02699050110119141 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Brain Inj. 2002 Jun;16(6):517-25. doi: 10.1080/02699050110119141.