title: Management of orbital blowout fractures: the prognostic significance of computed tomography.
abstract: Computed tomography (CT) can be used to aid surgical decision making when the clinical picture is unclear. Patients with blowout fractures and a large amount of orbital expansion and soft tissue herniation have a high risk for developing enophthalmos. Patients with entrapped inferior rectus muscles on CT may continue to have significant diplopia unless they are treated surgically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Gilbard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D009917:Orbital Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed