Superior blowout fracture of the orbit: the blowup fracture.

Publication/Presentation Date

9-1-1998

Abstract

We describe a patient who sustained a blowout fracture of the superior orbital roof without an orbital rim fracture. The initial CT study (obtained with 10-mm-thick sections) did not show herniation of the intraorbital fat into the anterior cranial fossa; however, thin (3-mm-thick) direct orbital sections showed a fracture of the midportion of the superomedial orbital roof with displacement of the fracture fragment into the anterior cranial fossa.

Volume

19

Issue

8

First Page

1448

Last Page

1449

ISSN

0195-6108

Disciplines

Diagnosis | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Radiology

PubMedID

9763375

Department(s)

Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Medical Imaging

Document Type

Article

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