Study of Cerebral Strokes using Computed Tomography in Sudanese People

Abstract

The stroke is a medical emergency in which the blood supply to any portion of the brain is interrupted or reduced, alternative names: Cerebrovascular accident/ disease (CVA), cerebral infarction, cerebral haemorrhage. This study is a descriptive study and had been conducted at police hospital in a period from October 2016 to January 2017 with sample which was consisted from 50 patient CT brain images for patient having cerebral stroke. The aim of this Research to study of cerebral stroke using CT scanning Sudanese people, identify appearance, site, size, determine signal intensity of ischemic stroke and identify (H S) & (I S). The result of sample size of (50) pt was selected for detecting cerebral stroke and found that most (72%) were ischemic stroke, while (28%) of them were hemorrhagic stroke and non –significant difference between the mean hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke