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coronal plane
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coronal plane
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A vertical plane at right angles to a sagittal plane, dividing the body into anterior and posterior portions. Also called frontal plane.

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The initial workup and preoperative planning are guided by CT in the axial and coronal planes and by MRI when the latter is not contraindicated, as it was in our patient.
The calculated means and standard deviations of the rectus abdominis muscle angles of insertion in the sagittal and coronal planes (angles A, B, C, and D as shown in Fig.
Computed tomography (CT) in both axial and coronal planes identified an expansile soft-tissue-density mass that was confined to the left sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses with foci of calcification that had displaced the globe anterolaterally secondary to the extension of the mass through the medial wall of the orbit (figure 1).
 
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