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TitleOrbit Blowout Fracture
TextOrbital Floor Blowout Fracture with Inferior Rectus entrapment

o Common due to relative weakness of orbital floor and lack of compressible tissue/air space within bony orbit.

o Surgically correctable
References:
ContributorJoshua S Ritenour (Uniformed Services University)
AuthorAnthony Keller 
Peer ReviewerJames G. Smirniotopoulos, M.D. (Uniformed Services University)
Record Number : 2333
Created2001-07-10 14:57:21-04
Modified2001-08-30 09:08:05-04
Category:Trauma
Location:Eye and Orbit (exclude Ophthalmology)
Sublocation:None Selected
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