Replacing Depressed Fractures of the Malar Bone

Abstract

1j)133 AN' -2J, 27831ALAR FRACTURES-MANIVARING considered inoperable. Thus we have a proportion of one case in five considered inoperable clinically. This large proportion is not surprising, since the average duration of symptoms of the patients operated on was 2.3, years, while with 31 per cent. it was 3 or more years. The symptoms which caused us to consider the patient's condition as inoperable were (1) fluid in the abdomen;(2) edema of the extremities; (3) extreme emaciation and weakness; (4) evidence of metastasis; (5) cardiac

Fractures of the Orbital Floor

“…Williams23 reported similarly. Numerous other reports followed.9' 10,16,17,18,24,25,26,27 Open operation and reduction of the fragments has been described by some'0 25'28 By any of these methodsi reduction of simple malar fractures is considered relatively simple. Little orbital deformity other than at the rim is present and there should be little or no displacement of orbital content with attendant ocular malfunction.…”