CT changes in dementing diseases.
Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: reason we propose that MR should be used as preferred initial test before less sensitive brainstem evoked responses and visual evoked responses. As stated in our article, visual evoked responses may provide additional support for diagnosis of MS in patients with normal MR studies. In this admittedly small series of 10 patients, no additional information was obtained from brain stem or visual evoked responses. Rather, MR detected multiple white matter lesions in twice as many patients as did evoked responses, prompting our conclusion that the small amount of additional information derived from VERs and BAERs may not justify these expensive tests in patients with abnormal MR scans. Although MR studies are not cheap, they are sensitive. The most expensive test, in long run, is one that provides little or no information , and that must be followed by other more sensitive studies to establish diagnosis. Mary K. Edwards Martin R. Farlow James C. Stevens Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN 46223
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: V L Babikian, C Kase
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2345649787