Journal of the Korean Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association  2004;5(1):78-80

The Simple Calculating Method of Fracture Area in Orbital Fracture.

Hyong Sik JEON 1 ; Sang Yoon KANG ; Sang Hun CHO

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Keywords

Orbital fracture area; Enophthalmos

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the authors experience that simple calculating method of fracture area in blow out fracture. Authors set up a hypothesis that fracture shape is a isosceles triangle, rectangle or diamond shape. It was enable easily to calculating of fracture area with 2D facial CT scan only. Enophthalmos and fracture area of 22 patients was made inspection. We verified our experimental results with student t-test. We first concluded that new simple calculating method is usful but, need further evaluations and patients.