title: [3-dimensional display of computed tomographic studies of craniofacial anomalies].
abstract: Craniofacial anomalies are conventionally investigated by cephalometry using ordinary radiographs and by computed tomography. Both methods have the major disadvantage of trying to demonstrate a complex three-dimensional structure, such as the skull, in two dimensions and they therefore cannot display a true spatial image. We present the principle underlying a three-dimensional display derived from computer tomographic studies and discuss the clinical application in the diagnosis of craniofacial anomalies.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003394:Craniofacial Dysostosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006972:Hypertelorism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008342:Mandibulofacial Dysostosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Die dreidimensionale Darstellung computertomographischer Untersuchungen kraniofazialer Anomalien.