Glue-sniffing as a cause of a positive radio-isotope brain scan |
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Authors: | C. M. Lamont F. G. Adams |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland |
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Abstract: | Convulsions are a known complication of the acute intoxicant effects of solvent abuse. A radio-isotope brain scan done 9 months following status epilepticus secondary to toluene inhalation, in a previously normal school-boy, demonstrated several wedge-shaped areas of increased uptake, in both cerebral hemispheres, consistent with infarcts. It is worth remembering that a positive brain scan in a young person, with recent onset of epilepsy, may be due to glue-sniffing. |
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