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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma

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A 10 year old child having history blunt trauma to his eye blunt eye trauma cause increased pressure this pressure cause herniation of orbital contents to sinus the most common sinus to which herniation occur is ?
  1. Frontal sinus
  2. Maxillary sinus
  3. Sphenoid sinus
  4. Ethmoid sinus
Explanation
Answer: B - Blunt trauma to the eye causes increased pressure to the globe of the eye.
The pressure causes the weakest area (orbital floor) to give way, causing
herniation of orbital contents (inferior oblique muscle entrapment) into the
maxillary sinus .
Maxillary sinus are large sinus present inferior to eye so these are most commonly herniation occurs to these sinus.
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