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Le Fort fracture of skull - Wikipedia The Le Fort (or LeFort) fractures are a pattern of midface fractures originally described by the French surgeon, René Le Fort, in the early 1900s [1] He described three distinct fracture patterns
Le Fort fracture classification | Radiology Reference Article . . . Le Fort fractures are fractures of the midface, which collectively involve separation of all or a portion of the midface from the skull base In order to be separated from the skull base, the pterygoid plates of the sphenoid bone need to be invol
Le Fort Fractures - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf In 1901, René Le Fort, a French military surgeon, performed a series of experiments on 35 cadavers to determine the most common patterns of midfacial skeletal injuries that result from blunt trauma Despite being an army physician, he eschewed the study of penetrating facial trauma, particularly gunshot wounds, as he termed them "veritable explosions in the face" and deemed them to be
Facial Fracture Management Handbook - LeFort Fractures LeFort II fractures transect the nasal bones, medial-anterior orbital walls, orbital floor, inferior orbital rims and finally transversely fracture the posterior maxilla and pterygoid plates LeFort III fractures result in craniofacial disjunction This is the highest level LeFort fracture and essentially separates the maxilla from the skull base
Management of Le Fort I fracture - PMC Among the classification of maxillary fracture, the Le Fort classification is the best-known categorization Le Fort (1901) completed experiments that determined the maxilla areas of structural weakness which he designated as the “lines of
Le Fort fractures - WikEM Consider discharge in isolated LeFort I or stable LeFort II fractures without concerning features (in coordination with appropriate specialist consult - OMFS, ENT, or PRS)
Lefort Fractures - EyeWiki Initially described in 1901 by French surgeon René Le Fort (1869-1951), LeFort fractures represent a group of midface fractures that occur following blunt trauma and follow areas of structural weakness
Le Fort Fractures - Core EM Radiopaedia: LeFort Fracture Classification AO Surgery Reference (great for clinical exam pearls): Midface Exam References Bagheri SC, Holmgren E, Kademani D, Hommer L, Bell RB, Potter BE, et al Comparison of the severity of bilateral Le Fort injuries in isolated midface trauma J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2005;63 (8):1123-9 PMID: 16094579