Facial trauma
Updates to Case Attributes
Severe facial trauma showing multiple facial fractures on the right, which includes a zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture and angle and body of the mandibula.
- +<p>Severe facial trauma showing multiple <a title="Facial fractures" href="/articles/facial-fractures">facial fractures</a> on the right, which includes a <a title="Zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture" href="/articles/zygomaticomaxillary-complex-fracture-1">zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture</a> and <a title="Mandibular fractures" href="/articles/mandibular-fracture">angle and body of the mandibula</a>. </p>
Updates to Study Attributes
CT images are showing multiple facial fractures distributed on the right face:
- mandibular body in both sides, on the right involving the alveolar process and the first and second molar teeth; on the left involving the mental foramen and the alveolar process of the first premolar tooth.
- mandibular angle on the right associated with ramus displacement.
- right zygomatic arch (which presents angulated) and right orbital face of the zygomatic bone; fracture also in the union of the frontal process of the zygomatic bone and the zygomatic process of the frontal bone.
- right sphenoid bone.
- maxilla on the right : anterior and posterior walls of the maxillary sinus, as well as the orbital floor.
There is mild pneumocranium on the right and hemosinus. Brain parenchyma is unremarkable (not shown).