title: Treatment of zygomatic arch fracture with lag screws.
abstract: Zygomatic arch fractures often occur as part of a zygoma fracture or Le Fort type III fractures of the maxillary. Isolated fractures of the zygomatic arch comprise around 10% of all zygoma fractures. The main etiologic factors are traffic accidents, falls, assaults, and sport accidents. Treatment may involve minimally invasive surgical procedures for slightly dislocated fractures or surgery with more extensive access for large dislocations of bone segments. This article reports the case of a 41-year-old male victim of physical aggression to the face with a steel sickle with an exposed, unstable fracture of the zygomatic arch. The patient underwent general anesthesia, and after the reduction of the fractures, the bone segments were fixed with 2.0-mm screws.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. thiago.ctbmf@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Thiago
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: de Santana Santos
authors.forename: Alípio Miguel
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: da Rocha Neto
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Medeiros
authors.forename: Antonio Azoubel
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Antunes
authors.forename: David Moraes
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001863:Bone Screws; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005597:Fractures, Open / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014754:Violence; D015050:Zygoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D015051:Zygomatic Fractures / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*