title: Initial experience with intraoperative computed tomography in maxillofacial surgery.
abstract: With respect to the complex anatomy in the head and neck region, computed tomography has been established as a routine method for preoperative evaluation. Whereas in neurosurgery intraoperative tomographic image data acquisition (CT, MR) serves for control of therapeutic effects on a routine base, maxillofacial surgeons aren't accustomed to use the method in this way. Using a mobile Philips Tomoscan M scanner, we examined the clinical significance and especially the ergonomy of intraoperative CT scans in maxillofacial traumatology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany. juergen.hoffmann@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dammann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reinert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001860:Bone Plates; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013515:Surgery, Oral / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015051:Zygomatic Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*