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blowout fracture

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Blowout fracture
A fracture or break in the orbit that is caused by sudden and violent impact to the area.
Mentioned in: X Rays of the Orbit

blowout fracture
Head A fracture of the floor and medial walls of the orbit caused by a blunt object–eg, baseball, fist, rock–with herniation of the orbital contents–fat, inferior oblique, and inferior rectus into maxillary sinus, accompanied by diplopia, enophthalmos, and limitation of upward gaze See LeFort fractures Hip Dashboard fracture, see there.


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Pneumomediastinum following blowout fracture of the medial orbital wall: A case report.
23 scrimmage and caused an orbital blowout fracture to his left eye.
 
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