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Computertomographische Differentialdiagnose infratentorieller Atrophien

Differential diagnosis of infratentorial atrophies by computed tomography

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Computed tomographical findings are documented for 140 patients with different cerebellar atrophic or heredodegenerative processes. There are idiopathic cerebellar atrophies, so called alcoholic and paraneoplastic cerebellar atrophies, cerebellar atrophies associated with nutritional deficiency diseases or intake of diphenylhydantoin. Futher, there are patients suffering from Friedreich's ataxia, Nonne-Marie's spastic ataxia, olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy and various other diseases. With the aid of CT individual patterns of atrophy can be recognized. The method therefore, helps to distinguish the above mentioned diseases from each other and also distinguishes them from inflammatory, cerebrovascular or neoplastic processes.

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Es werden computertomographische Befunde bei 140 Patienten mit unterschiedlichen kleinhirnatrophischen oder heredodegenerativen Prozessen erhoben. Dabei handelt es sich um idiopathische Kleinhirn-Spätatrophien, sogenannte alkoholische und paraneoplastische Kleinhirnatrophien, Kleinhirnatrophien bei Mangelerkrankungen, nach Diphenylhydantoineinnahme, Friedreichsche Ataxie, Nonne-Marie-Syndrom, olivo-pontocerebelläre Atrophie und verschiedene andere Syndrome. Mit Hilfe der Computertomographie können zum Teil spezifische Atrophiemuster erkannt werden. Die Methode hilft darum bei der differentialdiagnostischen Abgrenzung der o.g. Erkrankungen gegeneinander sowie gegenüber entzündlichen, vasogenen und neoplastischen Prozessen.

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Claus, D., Aschoff, J.C. Computertomographische Differentialdiagnose infratentorieller Atrophien. Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr 231, 289–303 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00343299

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