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Bilateral Orbital Fracture Repair

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This is a second case after repair of orbital fractures.

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In this case,

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one sees that the patient has had bilateral fractures of the orbital

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floor with their communication to the medial orbital wall.

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Once again,

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the approximation of the mesh to the orbital floor need not be exact.

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Sometimes, one can see the fracture repair extend

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upward along the medial orbital wall

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if the fracture has extended along the lamina papyracea,

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so these would be extending both to repair the orbital floor ,

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as well as the medial orbital wall in a continuous fashion.

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The main thing that you do want to see, with regard to the repair, is that

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the mesh that's laid in crosses the plane of the fracture itself.

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So, it goes across the entire extent of the fracture.

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Complications of the repair include continuous herniation

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of either fat or muscle through the orbital floor or medial orbital wall

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or orbital hematoma.

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Therefore, in addition to the bone windows,

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it's important to continue to look at the soft

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tissue windows and observe the absence of hemorrhage

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in the retrobulbar compartment or intraconal space,

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or extraconal space.

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In this case, the repair is outstanding.

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Faculty

David M Yousem, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology, Vice Chairman and Associate Dean

Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Trauma

Orbit

Neuroradiology

Neuro

Head and Neck

CT

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