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Cranial CT scan
Alternative Names:
Head CT; CT scan - skull; CT scan - head; CT scan - orbits; CT scan - sinuses
What abnormal results mean:
There may be signs of:
Trauma
Bleeding (for example,
chronic subdural hematoma
or intracranial hemorrhage)
Stroke
Masses or tumors
Abnormal sinus drainage
Sensorineural
hearing loss
Malformed bone or other tissues
Brain abscess
Cerebral atrophy
(loss of brain tissue)
Brain tissue swelling
Hydrocephalus
(fluid collecting in the skull)
Additional conditions under which the test may be performed:
Acoustic neuroma
Acoustic trauma
Acromegaly
Acute (subacute) subdural hematoma
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Arteriovenous malformation (cerebral)
Benign positional vertigo
Throat cancer
Central pontine myelinolysis
Cerebral aneurysm
Cushing's syndrome
Deep intracerebral hemorrhage
Delirium
Dementia
Dementia due to metabolic causes
Drug-induced tremor
Encephalitis
Epilepsy
Essential tremor
Extradural hemorrhage
Familial tremor
General paresis
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
Hemorrhagic stroke
Hepatic encephalopathy
Huntington's disease
Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage
Hypopituitarism
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Juvenile angiofibroma
Labyrinthitis
Lobar intracerebral hemorrhage
Ludwig's angina
Mastoiditis
Melanoma of the eye
Meniere's disease
Meningitis
Metastatic brain tumor
Multi-infarct dementia
Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) I
Neurosyphilis
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
Occupational hearing loss
Optic glioma
Orbital cellulitis
Otitis media; chronic
Otosclerosis
Partial (focal) seizure
Partial complex seizure
Petit mal seizure
Pituitary tumor
Primary brain tumor
Primary lymphoma of the brain
Prolactinoma
Retinoblastoma
Reye's syndrome
Schizophrenia
Senile dementia/Alzheimer's type
Acute sinusitis
Stroke secondary to atherosclerosis
Stroke secondary to cardiogenic embolism
Stroke secondary to FMD
Stroke secondary to syphilis
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Syphilitic aseptic meningitis
Temporal lobe seizure
Toxoplasmosis
Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
Wilson's disease
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