A pre-hospital clinician is assessing a patient who has sustained a blow to the left eye. The patient is unable to look upward with the left eye, has ...

Question

A pre-hospital clinician is assessing a patient who has sustained a blow to the left eye. The patient is unable to look upward with the left eye, has diplopia on upward gaze, and has numbness of the left cheek. What is the most likely orbital fracture pattern?

Accepted Answer

Orbital floor (blowout) fracture with inferior rectus entrapment and infraorbital nerve involvement

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Medial orbital wall fracture

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Zygomatic arch fracture without orbital involvement

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Orbital roof fracture

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Lateral orbital wall fracture

uk-dipimc MCQ (SBA): Orbital Floor Blowout Fracture

A pre-hospital clinician is assessing a patient who has sustained a blow to the left eye. The patient is unable to look upward with the left eye, has diplopia on upward gaze, and has numbness of the left cheek. What is the most likely orbital fracture pattern?