Unusual penetrating orbit injury.
Penetrating head and face injuries can cause hemorrhages, neurological lesions, visual acuity loss, fractures and facial deformities. This report discusses an injury caused by a knife that penetrated the left orbit and reached the skull base without damaging any important structures. The knife was removed through the entrance wound and no complications were observed either during or after surgery.
Bourguignon Filho
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Post-graduate Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, School of Dentistry, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 6, Sala 209, CEP 90619-900 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. bourguignon.filho@bol.com.br
Puppin
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AA
Pimentel
D P
DP
Jaques
P M
PM
Borges
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HO
Lanes Silveira
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R
Beltrão
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GC
D000328:Adult; D005143:Eyelids / Q000293:injuries*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000293:injuries*; D019291:Skull Base / Q000293:injuries*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000601:surgery*