title: Bilateral orbital roof fracture.
abstract: Bilateral orbital roof fractures are rare events usually associated with high-energy impact trauma. The clinical picture is often multiple because of involvement of cranial, cerebral, and facial injuries. The primary diagnostic and therapeutic approaches aim to safeguard the cerebral state and to intercept the consequences of severe orbital trauma. The latter may present dramatic events and determine permanent ocular bulb or optic nerve damage, even vision impairment and blindness. Immediate intraorbital decompression decreases the pressure exerting directly or indirectly on the optic nerve. Surgical decompression of the orbit was performed in a young man showing almost complete blindness after bilateral orbital roof fracture. The final result showed good recovery of vision and functional motility of the bulbs.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Università Sapienza di Roma, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rinna
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rocchi
authors.forename: Enzo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ventucci
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagnoni
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Iannetti
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000209:etiology; D003399:Craniotomy; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology; D005133:Eye Movements; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009049:Motorcycles; D009917:Orbital Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000209:etiology; D014792:Visual Acuity; D055815:Young Adult