[Servant of the 9]

The dark area is supposed to be liquid, gone, missing
Is there someone on here who really knows how to read this thing?

So9

[amom]

BTTT

[BigSkyFreeper]

I sure would like to know...

BTTT

[Salamander]

I'm not a radiologist but I'd recognize a "dark area" like that, anywhere.

I have one just like it where my frontal lobe used to be...i.e. "gone", "missing", "pining for the fjords", etc etc etc.

[and damn if I'm not still here annoying people who say this "proves" she's "brain dead"]....;)

[neverdem]

IIRC, one of you is a radiologist. Can you offer any opinion from one slice of Terri Schiavo's CT scan?

[KDD]

No neurologist in his right mind is going to tell you what that large back spot of fluid is in the center...and what it means.

He'd be run out of here on a rail.

I've been to a medical edu. blog where this was discussed and lurked.

I'll see if I can find the link in my history.

[bad company]

Ping!

[King Prout]

I am not a radiologist, but I have seen quite a large number of CAT, MRI, and PET scans of people with extensively compromised CN systems.
This looks nowhere near as bad as I was led to believe.
the ventricles are huge, yes. however, there appears to be extensive extant normal density neocortex. It would help to have the full sectional series to build a better understanding of what is damaged and what isn't.

[KoRn]

I'm no Radiologist, but just using common sense that's a f'#ked up looking brain,

Oh, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night =)

[Pharmboy]

Normal CT (but remember, the levels are not the same).

[groanup]

This is supposed to be Terri Schiavo's CAT scan

Where did you get it and how do you know it is authentic?

[McLynnan]

You need more than one CT slice to make a diagnoses. I see CT films daily and they must be read in relation to each other. The images on the slices before and after this one would reveal the whole picture.

[Saundra Duffy]

Terri responds to her mother. Period.

P.S. Can a tomato smile at her mother?

[chas376]

I've been looking at this CAT scan for almost an hour. I was a Radiographer for 35 years and there are some problems with this image. The image is reversed (you should be able to read all of the print). The print is very blurred (the labeling on a CAT scan is always very sharp and easily readable). There is nothing that indicates exactly who this person is (every image produced would have a patient's name on it as well as the name of the facility that produced it and the date of its acquisition). I don't claim to be a diagnostician but this could be an elderly person with normal atrophy or someone who has suffered a severe insult to the brain. Without the rest of the images, with proper identification on them, and the EEG you could never tell which it is.