Cat scans?

Do cat scans of the brain detect tumors?

Yes,CAT scans will detect brain tumors.They will give you an injection in your arm and if there is a tumor,it will appear as a white mass.As someone above stated,An MRI is more sensitive and may be ordered if the CAT scan does not give a clear result.If you are a diabetic,be sure to tell the technologist before the scan.

Ask the doctor. I think they could, if the tumor is large enough to be easily detected. You would need to have a dye that crosses the blood brain barrier, but if you had a head CT, I am sure they took that into account.

A CAT scan is the quickest scan of the brain (takes about 15 minutes) and it will detect lesions of the brain.
I had a CAT scan 3 years ago and it detected a lesion, but it wasn't clear enough to tell if it was a tumor or an aneurysm. Then I had an MRI (takes about an hour and is more expensive) and they were able to tell fairly certainly that it was a benign meningioma brain tumor.

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