[The significance of computed tomography in ophthalmologic diagnosis. I: The place of computed tomography, indications, study technics, anatomic representation, computed tomography of eyeball and orbital injuries].

CT is recognized today as method of choice for examining pathological conditions of eyeball and orbit. Several techniques of CT examination are needed to attain the most accurate and detailed information about orbital and eyeball lesions. The exact knowledge of the normal anatomic CT feature of orbital structures is necessary. In traumatic lesions of the globe and the orbit foreign bodies, haematomas and fractures of the orbital walls can be proved and localized and traumatic sequelae can be diagnosed.