title: Principles of management of complex craniofacial trauma.
abstract: Successful treatment of patients with complex craniofacial injuries is heavily dependent on the surgeon's appreciation of the associated nonfacial injuries, precise clinical and diagnostic imaging examinations to establish a three-dimensional configuration of the fractured segments, and the application of well-established principles of facial fracture repair. Factors that influence improved treatment outcome are 1) early definitive treatment, 2) anatomic and functional repair of naso-orbito-ethmoidal injuries, 3) wide exposure of fracture segments, and 4) anatomic repositioning and stable fixation of fracture segments in all planes of space.
authors: Department of Veteran Affairs, Lexington, KY.
authors: R D
authors: RD
authors: Marciani
authors: A A
authors: AA
authors: Gonty
mesh_terms: D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008446:Maxillofacial Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed