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ArticleAnnals of maxillofacial surgery

Surgical Dilemmas in Multiple Facial Fractures - Coronal Flap Versus Minimally Invasive: Case Report and Literature Review.

Saleh Nseir, Fadi Abu Shqara, Andrei Krasovsky, Adi Rachmiel

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Article in Annals of maxillofacial surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Saleh NseirDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Fadi Abu ShqaraDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Andrei KrasovskyDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Adi RachmielDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Rambam Health Care Campus · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

the rationalePan-facial fracture is a complex trauma that involves the upper, middle, and lower third of the facial bones. The surgical management of such complex cases is either by the posterior approach (coronal flap) or anterior approach through local incisions. PATIENT CONCERNS: This report describes the case of severe pan-facial trauma in a 52-year-old male who sustained a severe pan-facial trauma. DIAGNOSIS: He suffered from multiple facial fractures that included: Frontal bone, skull base, Naso-orbitoethmoid (NOE), zygomatic and sub-condylar fractures. TREATMENT: He was managed by minimally local periorbital and lynch incisions. OUTCOMES: Fractures were properly reduced with resultant symmetrical facial dimensions. No postoperative complications were demonstrated including facial nerve function. TAKE-AWAY LESSONS: We should consider minimally invasive local incisions in pan-facial fractures when there is no need to restore the frontal sinus and the anterior-posterior dimensions of the zygomatic arch.

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Anterior approachcoronal flapminimally invasivepan-facialposterior approach

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PMID34522683
PMCPMC8407624
OpenAlexW3185774239

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