The infraorbital rim staple--a new method of treating displaced and comminuted trimalar fractures.
This report describes a simple, effective technique that has been used on 12 patients to correct unstable rotated trimalar fractures, with or without comminution of the infraorbital rim. Eleven of the patients were followed up to 46 months, and all showed satisfactory results.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000293:injuries*; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D015051:Zygomatic Fractures / Q000601:surgery*