Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Profile of patients with orbital fracture following road traffic accident

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Dr. Dhananjaya KH, Dr. Girish Kulkarni

Abstract

A direct blow to the eye and the surrounding tissue will result in a contusional injury of varying severity; from “black eye” to severe intraocular disruption. When the eye is struck, an anteroposterior compression will result with concomitant stretch in the equatorial plane with subsequent contusional and tearing damage. A pre-structured and pretested questionnaire was used to gather information after obtaining an oral informed consent from the study subject and maintaining confidentiality. The relatives or attendants will be interviewed where the condition of the victims did not warrant the interview. In our study we found that 68% of the orbital fractures were unilateral while 32% were bilateral. Out of which the most common wall to be fractures was the floor 59(59%) patients followed by 34(34%) lateral wall fracture 31(31%) medial wall and 11(11%) had roof fracture

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