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Surgical Treatment of Orbital Blow-Out Fractures

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Traumatology of the Skull Base
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In spite of their mostly characteristic symptoms, isolated orbital fractures are frequently overlooked or underestimated today. In this connection all questions concerning their correction are usually raised later at a time unfavourable for surgical treatment because ocular disturbances have already proved to be permanent.

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Scholtz, HJ. (1983). Surgical Treatment of Orbital Blow-Out Fractures. In: Samii, M., Brihaye, J. (eds) Traumatology of the Skull Base. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69172-0_14

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