Computerized tomographic diagnosis of the brain: addition of frontal and clivo-parallel cuts to the transverse standard cuts
Lohkamp, F.; Calussen, C.
Fortschritte der Neurologie Psychiatrie und Ihrer Grenzgebiete 45(6): 372-380
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0015-8194 PMID: 587097 Document Number: 119900
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.