[Brain scintigraphic check-ups during inflammatory CNS diseases to prove absence or presence of brain abscesses and subdural empyemas].

Methods of instrumental diagnosis, which are used to provide evidence for the absence of complications associated with inflammatory processes of the central nervous system and which often give unsatisfactory results in addition to being accompanied by major risks, are compared with long-time scintigraphic reexaminactions which involve no danger to the patient examined by this method. This comparison has been made from the point of view of workers at a department of neuroradiology of a clinic of neurosurgery. Process-like developments into abscesses or empyemata as well as mixed conditions may be readily diagnosed by cerebral scintigraphy so that it is sufficient to make only one single angiographic examination which, if necessary, may be directly followed by neurosurgical intervention.