Imaging findings of intracranial pressure (ICP) should never be interpreted in a vacuum, as asymptomatic patients with isolated nonspecific imaging findings are unlikely to have an ICP disorder.
That’s one of several guiding principles on avoiding imaging-based ICP misdiagnoses offered by neuroradiologist Amit Saindane, MD, of Emory University in an April 7 Oxford University Press blog.
Along with the pointers, Saindane provides a concise primer on the latest thinking on ICP imaging.
“Imaging with computed tomography (CT), or more commonly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is frequently performed as part of [an initial] diagnostic workup,” Saindane writes. “While imaging was traditionally obtained to exclude key important diagnoses (such as brain tumor and hydrocephalus), numerous recent studies have shown that there are a variety of imaging findings that have high associations with chronically elevated or decreased ICP.”
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