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JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 1050-1053Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3182564ef3
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Orbital fracture; enophthalmos; correlation
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- Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology
- Beijing Municipal Development Foundation [2007-3008]
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We sought to investigate the correlation between type of orbital fracture and occurrence of traumatic enophthalmos. The 119 patients with orbital fractures were divided into the enophthalmos group (71 cases) and the nonenophthalmos group (48 cases). The 2 groups were compared by location and type of orbital fracture based on observation of computed tomography scans. We found the incidence of medial wall fractures significantly higher in the enophthalmos group (76.06%) than in the nonenophthalmos group (22.92%, chi(2) = 32.63, P G 0.05). The incidence of combined medial-inferior wall fractures was also significantly higher in the enophthalmos group (52.93%) than in the nonenophthalmos group (12.5%, chi(2) = 23.21, P < 0.05). However, the incidence of lateral-inferior wall fractures was significantly lower in the enophthalmos group (36.62%) than in the other group (58.33%, chi(2) = 4.11, P < 0.05). In most cases of lateral-inferior orbital wall fracture in the enophthalmos group, the zygomatic complex was displaced toward the lateral-posterior direction. The combined medial-inferior wall fracture is likely the primary type of multiple wall fracture leading to traumatic enophthalmos. Enophthalmos caused by a combined lateral-inferior fracture may be correlated with lateral-posterior displacement of the zygomatic complex.
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