title: Management of facial fractures.
abstract: This article presents up-to-date information for the emergency medicine community on several patterns of facial fractures and their associated injuries. The article contains information about the anatomic structure and pathologic injuries that occur in the setting of facial trauma and guides the emergency medicine community in the thorough physical and diagnostic evaluation, emergent treatment, and proper surgical or outpatient treatment.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Critical Care, Shock Trauma Center, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. drkimb@gmail.com
authors.forename: Kim A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Boswell
mesh_terms: D004630:Emergencies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009917:Orbital Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D015051:Zygomatic Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy