The Role of Computed Axial Tomography in the Study of the Child with Minimal Brain Dysfunction

Abstract

Delta CTexaminations of the brain were performed in 44 children with minimal brain dysfunction and specific learning disabilities. Contrast media were not injected. Forty-two of the 44 patients examined (95.5%) had normal scans. One child had agenesis of the corpus callosum, a deficit documented by ventriculography during the first year of life. One child had a focal area of infarction or postinflammatory gliosis in the right occipitoparietal region. It was concluded from this study that computed axial tomography of the brain is not a necessary screening procedure in the evaluation of the child with minimal brain dysfunction or learning disabilities unless there is evidence of a focal neurologic deficit.