A serial computerized tomographic study of the interval form of CO poisoning

Eur Neurol. 1993;33(1):27-9. doi: 10.1159/000116895.

Abstract

Serial computerized tomography (CT) was performed to quantitatively characterize cerebral changes in 1 case of the interval form of carbon monoxide poisoning. The patient was comatose for 2 days, regained consciousness for 8 days, and then developed akinetic mutism. During the remission period, a low-density area in the cerebral white matter was observed to enlarge progressively. These results suggest that the demyelination of the cerebral white matter progressed throughout the interval period. A correlation between changes in CT abnormalities and clinical presentation is described.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Atrophy
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / pathology
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / pathology
  • Demyelinating Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Demyelinating Diseases / pathology
  • Globus Pallidus / diagnostic imaging
  • Globus Pallidus / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia, Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypoxia, Brain / pathology
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed