title: Progress in the diagnosis of craniofacial injuries and tumours by computer tomography.
abstract: This paper tries to demonstrate the diagnostic possibilities  and limitations of CT in the facial skeleton. Our results stem from the examination of benign and malignant processes in 250 patients. This paper should demonstrate the different characteristics of the pictures obtained by CT and conventional polytomography. The main purpose of CT is not the diagnosis of fractures - here pluridirectional tomography is far superior - but the demonstration of space-occupying processes of benign and malignant tumours. CT cannot presently be applied to the investigation of different histopathological lesions.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*