The association of Le Fort midfacial fractures with frontobasal injuries: a 17-year review of 125 cases, reflections on biomechanics, classifications and treatment - 27/11/21
, Lionel Thollon c, Yves Godio-Raboutet c, Emeric Carbonnel a, c, Laurent Guyot a, b, Nicolas Graillon a, b, Jean-Marc Foletti a, b, cBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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The frequency of midface and frontobasal fractures has increased over the past 40 years despite the improvement and stringent regulation implemented on modern safety equipment (belts, helmets…). This observation might be correlated with the progress of radiodiagnosis tools.
Literature was reviewed according to Prisma guidelines. We searched for reviewed articles, published between January 2000 and December 2017, through Medline (Pubmed) online databases and ScienceDirect, using the following MeSH Keywords: "Le Fort classification", "Le Fort fracture", "Frontobasal fracture", "skull base fracture", "Midface Fractures".
Among 652 patients with frontobasal fractures, 125 (19.1%) were associated with a Le Fort fracture. 59 (9%) were associated with Le Fort III fracture, 51 (7.8%) with Le Fort II fracture and 15 (2.3%) with Le Fort I fracture. When frontobasal fractures were associated with midfacial fractures, we found 18 cerebrospinal fluid leaks (11.8 %) and 19 cases of meningitis (12.5 %). When only the frontobasal area was involved, there were 6 cerebrospinal fluid leaks (4.3 %) and 6 meningitis (4.3 %).
Our results highlight a regular association between Le Fort fractures and frontobasal fractures for stages II and stage III of Le Fort fractures and also found a higher rate of neuro-septic complication. Further research shall investigate treatment and monitoring recommendations fitting modern epidemiology of craniofacial traumatology.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Le Fort, Maxillary fractures, Skull base fracture, Cerebrospinal fluid leaks
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