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lianna [129]
3 years ago
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A 52-year-old woman reports a skiing fall. She walks into the aid station and complains of double vision. She reports that she f

ell and landed on hard packed snow on her face. You suspect she has a: A) retinal detachment. B) blowout fracture. C) impaled object in her eye. D) significant head injury.
Medicine
1 answer:
Helga [31]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: B. blowout fracture.

Explanation:

The blowout fracture or orbital flow fracture is caused by the trauma in the orbital bones. The causes of this fracture are the attack with a blunt object, vehicular accidents, sky fall, blow by a fist and others.

The symptoms of the fracture includes bruising, swelling, redness of eye, double vision (observing two images at the same time), nose bleeds, numbness of cheek, air under the skin below the eye and others.

On the basis of above description, blowout fracture is the suspected fracture in 52 year old women.

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