Citation

Van As AB, van Loghem AJ, Biermans BF, Douglas TS, Wieselthaler N, Naidoo S. Int. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 2006; 35(10): 903-906.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijom.2006.07.008

PMID

16965898

Abstract

The cases of 107 pediatric patients aged 0-12 years were retrospectively reviewed. The patients presented with facial trauma and both plain radiographs and computed tomography (CT) scans had been ordered. Sixty-five per cent of facial fractures were missed in radiography, but revealed on CT; fractures of the maxilla, the zygoma and the orbit were most frequently missed in radiography. Pedestrian motor vehicle accidents were the most frequent cause of facial fractures (37%), followed by passenger motor vehicle accidents (22%). In contrast with other studies reporting the mandible as the most frequent facial fracture site, the most common fracture sites in this study, in descending order of frequency, were the orbit, the frontal bone and the maxilla.

Language: en