Second-Day Encephalography, with Particular Reference to the Size of the Ventricles

Abstract

THE literature contains a comparatively small number of publications concerning the appearance of the ventricles on the days following encephalography, although it is quite probable that a number of investigators have been interested in such follow-up studies without publishing them. Of the published reports, some were confined to the rate of absorption of air after encephalography,^{1 , 2} whereas others emphasized the importance of second-day studies for the demonstration of porencephalic cysts.^{3 , 4} Only a few observations were concerned with the size of the ventricles during follow-up studies, and those were quite contradictory. Schott and Eitel,⁵ as well as Reinberg,⁶ mention dilatation of . . .