The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma

The ‘white-eyed’ blowout fracture (WEBOF) is an injury that is often overlooked in head trauma patients, as it often has few overt clinical and radiographic features. Although benign in appearance, it can lead to significant patient morbidity. Here, we intend to increase the awareness of WEBOF and p...

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Autores principales: Saggese, Nicholas P, Mohammadi, Ebrahim, Cardo, Vito A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245200
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4412
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description The ‘white-eyed’ blowout fracture (WEBOF) is an injury that is often overlooked in head trauma patients, as it often has few overt clinical and radiographic features. Although benign in appearance, it can lead to significant patient morbidity. Here, we intend to increase the awareness of WEBOF and provide general principles for its diagnosis. WEBOF should be recognized early to ensure timely management and a successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-65593982019-06-26 The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma Saggese, Nicholas P Mohammadi, Ebrahim Cardo, Vito A Cureus Emergency Medicine The ‘white-eyed’ blowout fracture (WEBOF) is an injury that is often overlooked in head trauma patients, as it often has few overt clinical and radiographic features. Although benign in appearance, it can lead to significant patient morbidity. Here, we intend to increase the awareness of WEBOF and provide general principles for its diagnosis. WEBOF should be recognized early to ensure timely management and a successful outcome. Cureus 2019-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6559398/ /pubmed/31245200 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4412 Text en Copyright © 2019, Saggese et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title_full The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title_fullStr The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title_full_unstemmed The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title_short The ‘White-eyed’ Orbital Blowout Fracture: An Easily Overlooked Injury in Maxillofacial Trauma
title_sort ‘white-eyed’ orbital blowout fracture: an easily overlooked injury in maxillofacial trauma
topic Emergency Medicine
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