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To: Servant of the 9
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3 posted on 03/19/2005 6:31:13 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have a //cuckoo// God given right //Yeeeahrgh!!// to be an //Hello?// atheist)
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Not a radiologist, but the large black areas are enlarged ventricles, likely secondary to the fact that there is a very little or no normal brain tissue present. There also appears to be a ventriculostomy tube in place which is the bright white area in the middle (likely a portion of a CSF shunt), although on one slice I can't be sure. I should also say that you might see a somewhat similar picture in people/children with congenital brain anomalies (ie, born with a brain that never developed and formed properly). I can't tell you if that is really her CT scan, but I can tell you that the type and amount of brain damage you are seeing in this picture is devastating and irreversible.


24 posted on 03/19/2005 6:50:29 PM PST by 95Tarheel
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