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Meeting abstract

https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-144-supl2-CR39

Multifragmental orbital floor blowout fracture fol- lowed by car accident and treatment with prolene mesh

Lovro Kovač ; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Nikolina Bajlo ; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci


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Abstract

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Most common orbital fracture is blowout fracture and it is often result of trauma in which object that hits eyeball transfers force to it and indirectly to orbital floor (medial of sulcus infraorbitalis) which is the "locus minoris resistentiae" of orbital walls. Result of floor trauma is orbital fat tissue prolaps into the maxillary sinus which is commonly followed with inferior rectus muscle prolapse. Real-life example of trauma whose mechanism is explained in this section will be topic of this case report.

Keywords

blowout orbital floor fracture, multifragmen- tal fracture of nasal bone, musculus rectus inferior en- trapment

Hrčak ID:

278967

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278967

Publication date:

27.4.2022.

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