[Computerized tomographic diagnosis of the brain: addition of frontal and clivo-parallel cuts to the transverse standard cuts (author's transl)].
The data of now available transverse cut are insufficient for spatial orientation. Using a special technique, frontal and clivo-parallel cuts will provide satisfactory diagnostik detail. The often difficult differentiation between vertically adjoining or commmunicating structures will be facilitated by frontal tomography. Clivo-tangential cuts show the maximum of clivus and dorsum sellae, also the brainstem with axis-parallel transverse cuts. An approximately clivo-parallel cut in the aqueduct the 4th ventricle is longitudinally cut with influx and limited only partially in axis-parallel tomograms because of weak definition in the direction of the Z axis and the variable anatomic and geomtric relations. Pneumo-encephalography and ventriculography cannot be done without. So far in space-occupying lesions clivo parallel cuts are diagnostically valuable near the brainstem, the aqueduct and the 4th ventricle.
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001933:Brain Stem; D002535:Cerebral Aqueduct; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012658:Sella Turcica; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
Computertomographische Diagnostik des Gehirns: Ergänzung der transversalen Standardschichten durch frontale und clivo-parallele Schichten.