Treatment of orbital floor blowout fractures with conchal auricular cartilage graft: A report on 14 cases

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1413-1417

  Castellani, Andrea ^a,c   Negrini, Stefano ^b   Zanetti, Umberto ^b  

^a Civil Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOWOUT FRACTURE; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; EAR CARTILAGE; ENOPHTHALMOS; ENTROPION; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

EID: 0036896833     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/joms.2002.36094     Document Type: Article

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