Abstract

DIAZ FERNANDEZ, José Manuel  and  DIAZ CARDERO, Anyi Lucía. Lesion severity profile of the maxillofacial skeletal trauma. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.7, pp.954-961. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, cross sectional and observational study of 335 patients with maxillofacial skeletal lesions due to different causes, assisted in the Maxillofacial Surgery Service from "Saturnino Lora Torres" Clinical Surgical Teaching Provincial Hospital in Santiago from Cuba was carried out from January, 2009 to December, 2010, with the aim of characterizing them according to the anatomical qualifiers of trauma severity, in relation to the injury mechanism and the topographical diagnosis of them. In the series the patients with 3 or more skeletal injuries (37.9%), pure or combined with the soft tissue of the orofacial component, as well as moderate injuries (60.0%) prevailed. In the polyinjured patients, severe lesions prevailed without danger for life (16-24 points) and the severe ones with danger for the life (25-40 points). On the other hand, the middle facial third turned out to be the anatomical region where the severe lesions were more frequently located with and without danger for life; while the moderate and light individual lesions prevailed in this same anatomical region

Keywords : maxillofacial skeletal trauma; trauma severity anatomical qualifier; injury mechanism; topographical diagnosis.

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