[Single-photon emission computerized tomography in craniocerebral injuries in children].

The recognition of the localization and spread of traumatic damage to the brain in craniocerebral injury in children is a pressing problem. The authors studied the possibilities of monophoton emission computed tomography (MECT) with the use of the radiopharmaceutical preparation Ceretec in recognition and visualization of foci of traumatic damage to the brain in these patients. The study was conducted on 20 children with severe craniocerebral trauma in parallel with verification by computed X-ray tomography, electroencephalography and mapping of the brain potentials, and rheoencephalography.

[Osteoscintigraphy in the evaluation of a bone transplant in cranioplasty in children].

Scintigraphy of the skeleton with 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate was performed before operation and 3.6 and 12 mos. after allocranioplasty in 15 children aged 3 to 15 with posttraumatic defects of the bones of the cranial vault.