@misc{cogprints5718, volume = {6}, number = {1}, month = {July}, author = {Sumana J Kamath and MG Kamath and MM Kamath and Shobha G Pai and Jay Chhablani and Somya Chowdary}, editor = {Dr. Srinivas Kakkilaya}, title = {A Study Of Orbital Fractures In A Tertiary Health Care Center}, publisher = {Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya}, year = {2007}, journal = {Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences}, keywords = {Orbital fracture, Blow out, Optic nerve compression}, url = {http://cogprints.org/5718/}, abstract = {A retrospective study of patients with orbital fractures had 48\% patients in the age group of 20 ? 40 years with male : female ratio of 10:1. Road traffic accidents (71.43\%) were the most common cause followed by injury due to fall (20\%). Eighty five percent of patients had normal visual acuity at presentation and 65.57\% patients had no ocular complaints. Diplopia was present in 14.2\% of patients. Of the orbital fractures infraorbital rim was involved in 43.13\%, floor in 19.6\%, lateral wall in 13.7\%, pure blow out in 14.28\% and the roof in 2.9\%. Important ocular findings were extraocular movements restriction in 9 (10.3\%), infraorbital dysaesthesia in 3 (3.4\%), enophthalmos in 2, RAPD and globe rupture in 1 patient each. 32 patients underwent surgical management. At the end of 4 months of follow up, 3 had restriction of EOM, 1 patient had vision loss due to globe rupture, 2 had RAPD (optic nerve compression), 1 had lagophthalmos, 1 had exotropia and 1 had atrophic bulbi.} }