Abstract:
Cerebrovascular accident is the sudden brain death due to lack
of oxygen, when blood flow is impaired by blockage or rupture
of a blood vessel in the brain, CVA is also referred to as stroke,
it got two main types, ischemic and hemorrhagic, CT scan has
become the standard imaging technique to rule out whether if
the stroke is ischemic or hemorrhagic, the goal of this research
was to evaluate the pattern of CT findings in patients with a
clinically diagnosed CVA and show the accuracy of CT scan in
diagnosing CVA by giving the type, the size and the location of
it also to describe the non-enhanced CT appearance of normal
and abnormal brain tissue and to identify the pathologic
condition found on CT after relating it to the symptoms and
.clinical diagnose
This study was carried in United Arab Emirates, ALQASSIME
hospital in sharjah, with a group size of 75 patients that were
clinically diagnosed with CVA with a group ages that falls
between 20 yrs to 99 years old, 46 patients revealed positive
CT diagnose for CVA, most of them were in ages between (40-
59 yrs old), Females showed high incidence than Males in this
study both in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, Ischemic
strokes recorded 33 cases of positive scans, while hemorrhagic
.strokes recorded 13 cases of positive scans
Percentage of positive CT scans was 61.3% of the whole study
