Orbital blow out fracture

Case contributed by Laughlin Dawes , 24 Apr 2015
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Tim Luijkx, 6 Nov 2015

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Diagnostic Certainty was set to .
Age changed from 21 to 20.

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Findings was changed:

 AA coronal reformat image of a CT of the facial bones shows a depressed fracture of the floor of the right orbit. Extraconal intraorbital fat is herniating inferiorly through the fracture and the inferior rectus muscle is distorted and pulled inferiorly.

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