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Cranial CT was performed in five patients with eclampsia: densitometric modifications were present in all cases. Only one patient, who later died, displayed multiple foci of cerebral haemorrhage; all others presented bilateral, symmetrical, nonenhancing hypodensities with mass effect interpreted as cerebral oedema. At CT performed 7–14 days after interruption of the pregnancy, these characteristic hypodense lesions were no longer present while neurological symptoms disappeared.
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Colosimo, C., Fileni, A., Moschini, M. et al. CT findings in eclampsia. Neuroradiology 27, 313–317 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339563
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00339563