Cease is receiving a CT scan on his head after being hit on a bounce by a comebacker in the third inning of Monday's game against the Mets, Marty Caswell of The Sporting Tribune reports.

"His doctor never advised him to have this simple scan that could have identified it early in its development and possibly ...

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To reduce unnecessary CT use, some hospitals have begun using blood-based biomarkers to guide triage in mild head trauma.

A CT scan or Computerized tomography is also called a CAT (computerized axial tomography). It is essentially an X-ray procedure that combines a large number of X-ray images taken in succession.

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. "There is very large variation," she said, "and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...

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The hospital's radiology department conducted a CT scan on a massive loggerhead sea turtle that had sustained a head injury.

CT scans also have supplanted exploratory surgery, Thomason said. "When my father was a general surgeon, they took so many patients to surgery (because) they had no idea what they had wrong with ...

Use of CT scans in the U.S. has more than tripled in less than two decades. Despite the medical benefits, these scans emit a significant amount of radiation. A new study estimates that 29,000 ...

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. “There is very large variation,” she said, “and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...