Alloplastic implants have been used to repair orbital wall fractures in most cases. Orbital hemorrhage is a rare complication of these implants and has been reported rarely in Korea. The purpose of this article is to report a late complication case focusing on their etiology and management. A 20-year-old male patient underwent open reduction with Medpor (porous polyethylene) insertion for bilat...

Abstract White eyed blowout fracture or ‘trapdoor fracture’ is an orbital floor injury caused by blunt force trauma directly to the orbit causing ocular muscle entrapment between fractured bones of orbit. It most commonly encountered in paediatric patient population and presents acutely with little no periorbital signs injury. This serious diagnosis frequently missed at initial presentation due...

INTRODUCTION Carotid blowout syndrome is an uncommon complication for patient treated by head and neck tumors, and related to a high mortality rate. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to study the risk of carotid blowout in a large cohort of patients treated only by larynx cancer. METHODS Retrospective analysis of patients older than 18 years, treated by larynx cancer who developed a carot...

Enlargement of primary tumor and metastatic lymph nodes in patients with head and neck cancer can be progressive and invade the surrounding vessels despite intensive treatment. Carotid blowout (CBS) tends to occur in these patients, and prompt treatment is required. Surgical management of carotid blowout is technically troublesome because exploration and repair of the previously irradiated or t...

No profile of events can capture all the facts, the chaos, and the many thousands of pages devoted to what the Gulf of Mexico oil blowout was—and was not. During several visits to the Gulf region in 2010 and in the months I spent writing a book on the subject, the best way I found to make sense of the blowout’s many facets was as conceptual topography, its contours shaped by the interlaced fact...