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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: Text Continues Below 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 Page:  1 | 2 | Next >>