A Clinical Study of Facial Bone Fractures |
Hye Jin Choi, MD, Tai Kwon Cho, MD, Ik Soon Shin, MD, Jung Hoon Hong, MD, and Ju Yeong Lim, MD |
Department of Otolaryngology, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea |
안면골 골절에 관한 임상적 고찰 |
최혜진 · 조태권 · 신익순 · 홍정훈 · 임주영 |
국립경찰병원 이비인후과 |
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ABSTRACT |
As our society has become completely mobile and yet crowded, trauma has emerged as one out leading health problem. The authors especially have experienced a lot of facial bone fractures caused by intended injuries with stones, fists and steel pipes. The correction of dysfunction and deformity is a major aim in the treatment of injuries in facial bone fractures. And so surgeons should manage the patients with a through understanding for facial bone fractures. One hundred sixty-seven cases with facial bone fractures admitted to the department of Otolaryngology of National Police Hospital from September, 1988 to August, 1994 were analyzed in age and sex distributions, causes, anatomical locations, associated injuries and management.
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Keywords:
Facial bone fractureㆍFacial trauma. |
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