Initial experience with intraoperative computed tomography in maxillofacial surgery
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Published on: August 6, 2019
J Hoffmann1, F Dammann, S Reinert
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany. juergen.hoffmann@uni-tuebingen.de
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.
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