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Low yield of head CT in cirrhotic patients presenting with hepatic encephalopathy.

Angy HannaInayat GillZaid ImamAlexandra HalalauLaith H Jamil
Published in: BMJ open gastroenterology (2021)
Routine HCTs in cirrhotic patients presenting with HE with AMS in the absence of history of trauma, headache, syncope, FNDs or aspirin use is of low diagnostic yield.
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