Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2010
A 32-year-old male patient was delivered to traumatology. He complains about nosebleed, severe cephalalgia, giddiness, face deformation, heavy breathing, mastication inability. He sustained an injury in the mine over three hours ago. He was conscious. Objectively: the middle third of his face is elongated, there are considerable hematomas and there is an edema in the region of nose root and eyelids of both eyes. The upper jaw is displaced downwards, it is mobile together with nasal bones, cheek bones and eyeballs. Palpation reveals deformation, pain and pathological mobility in the region of the nose bridge, external socket edges, pterygoid processes of basilar bone. Nosebleed is present. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Answer options
- Le Fort II maxillary fracture
- Fracture of nasal bone
- Le Fort III maxillary fracture (upper)
- Fracture of zygomatic bone
- Le Fort I maxillary fracture (lower)
Correct answer
Le Fort III maxillary fracture (upper)
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