X-Ray Skull Lateral View Procedure
The right or left lateral view of the skull demonstrates pathology such as skull fractures. The “lateral skull base” is one unique area of the skull base, situated at the side of the skull. This part of the skull base comprises structures called the temporal bone, infra-temporal fossa, clivus, and middle and posterior fossa.
This view is useful in assessing:
- Skull fracture
- Clivus
- Sella turcica
- Clinoid
- Nasal Bone
- Mandible fracture
- Internal auditory meatus
- Skull circumference
- Paget disease
- Neoplastic change
- Ethmoid sinus
- Orbits
- Structure seen in the dental region
- Mastoid sinus
Patient positioning
- Sides of the patient are facing the Bucky and the head is then rotated such that the median sagittal plane is parallel to Bucky and the inter-orbital line is right angle to it.
- Position the cassette transversely in the erect Bucky, such as the upper border is 5 cm above the vertex
Central ray
- In the middle of the glabella and the external occipital protuberance
- To a point that is 5 cm superior to the external auditory meatus.
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