Liberia, April 13 -- ABSTRACT

Brain tumours are a notable source of neurological morbidity and death in resource poor health systems where delays in receiving a diagnosis are common. Neuroimaging is a crucial part of the diagnosis and treatment of intracranial tumours, and the role of higher imaging modalities will differ from setting to setting. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains the preferred modality of choice in assessment of brain tumours in high-income countries, implementation in Liberia is limited due to infrastructural, financial and workforce limitations. This narrative review focuses on the drawbacks of MRI as compared with computed tomography (CT) in the assessment of brain tumours in the Liberian healthcare co...