OPTIC NERVE BLINDNESS FOLLOWING MIDFACIAL FRACTURES

중앙 안면부 골절후 발생한 시신경 실명

Ocular injuries often accompany midfacial trauma Blindness related to indirect optic nerve injury in midfacial fractures is an uncommon and usually permanent complication. Opic nerve blindness is secondary to an indirect optic nerve injury due to the skeletal distortion that occurs in a facial fracture and almost all are caused by frontal, nasoethmoido-frontal or Le Fort III type fractures. When the loss of vision following midfacial fractures is complete and immediate, the prognosis is poor in spite of treatment. Computed tomography revealed compressin of the optic nerve by bony fragments. And so if injury to the optic nerve is suspected, a CT-scan must be performed and massive steroid therapy must be started as soon as possible. Surgery must be performed if there are hematoma or bony fragments injuring the nerve. The following report concerns two patients who suffered immediate and total loss of vision due to a midfacial fracture with no improvement after massive steroid therapy and surgial decompression.

저자는 중앙 안면부 외상후 사골골절 및 협골 복합체 골절로 인한 골절편의 변위로 시신경이 손상되어 실명한 2명의 환자를 경험하였기에 문헌고찰과 함께 이에 보고하는 바이다.