Marciani R D, Gonty A A
Department of Veteran Affairs, Lexington, KY.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1993 May;51(5):535-42. doi: 10.1016/s0278-2391(10)80511-7.
Successful treatment of patients with complex craniofacial injuries is heavily dependent on the surgeon's appreciation of the associated nonfacial injuries, precise clinical and diagnostic imaging examinations to establish a three-dimensional configuration of the fractured segments, and the application of well-established principles of facial fracture repair. Factors that influence improved treatment outcome are 1) early definitive treatment, 2) anatomic and functional repair of naso-orbito-ethmoidal injuries, 3) wide exposure of fracture segments, and 4) anatomic repositioning and stable fixation of fracture segments in all planes of space.
