title: Virtual CT endoscopy in determining safe surgical entrance points for paranasal mucoceles.
abstract: The goal of this work was to evaluate virtual CT endoscopy for determining safe surgical entrance points for paranasal mucoceles. Twelve mucoceles in 11 cases were scanned with helical CT, and multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) and virtual endoscopic images were obtained. After a safe surgical entrance point was determined by MPR images, the entrance point was specified on the virtual endoscopic images. The combination of virtual endoscopic images and MPR images is a suitable method for determining a safe surgical entrance point for simple mucoceles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan. nakasato@iwate-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakasato
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katoh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ehara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamakawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murai
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009078:Mucocele / Q000601:surgery*; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014584:User-Computer Interface