Orbital Floor Blowout Fracture Treatment

The floor of the eye socket ruptures or cracks resulting in a small hole in the eye socket s floor which can trap some parts of the eye muscles and its surrounding.

Orbital floor blowout fracture treatment. An orbital blowout fracture is a traumatic deformity of the orbital floor or medial wall typically resulting from impact of a blunt object larger than the orbital aperture or eye socket most commonly the inferior orbital wall i e. An orbital blowout fracture is a fracture or break in the small bones that make up your eye. Orbital blowout fracture or indirect orbital floor fracture. Bruising and limited eye movements secondary to swelling are common clinical presentations top.

An example of a patient presenting with a right orbital floor blowout fracture. The floor is likely to collapse because the bones of the roof and lateral walls are robust. Management of complex orbital fractures. This is a fracture of the paper thin floor of the eye socket with the bony rim surrounding the eye remaining intact.

Blow out fracture of the orbit. Imaging of orbital floor fractures. Typically the floor of the orbit and the medial orbital wall are the bones involved in orbital blow out fractures. Smith b regan wf jr.

This injury is commonly the result of a fist baseball or tennis ball that strikes the eye. The orbit or eye socket is the cavity of the skull that holds the eye. Mechanism and correction of internal orbital fracture. An orbital blowout can occur when an object strikes the orbit with blunt force.

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