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    The Le Fort (or LeFort) fractures are a pattern of midface fractures originally described by the French surgeon, René Le Fort, in the early 1900s. He...
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  • Le Fort fracture can refer to: Le Fort fracture of skull Le Fort fracture of ankle This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Le...
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  • Thumbnail for Skull fracture
    A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the eight bones that form the cranial portion of the skull, usually occurring as a result of blunt force...
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    Le Fort (30 March 1869 – 30 March 1951) was a French surgeon from Lille known for creating a classification for fractures of the face. René Le Fort was...
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    Le fort osteotomies originate with the 1901 description of common human-skull fracture patterns by René Le Fort. Following these principles, the Le Fort...
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  • Le Fort's fracture of the ankle is a vertical fracture of the antero-medial part of the distal fibula with avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament...
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    Blowout fracture – a fracture of the walls or floor of the orbit Mandibular fracture Nasal fracture Le Fort fracture of skull – facial fractures involving...
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  • Le Fort I may refer to: Le Fort fracture of skull, type I Le Fort I osteotomy This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Le Fort...
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  • Thumbnail for Segond fracture
    Segond fracture is a type of avulsion fracture (soft tissue structures pulling off fragments of their bony attachment) from the lateral tibial plateau of the...
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    A Smith's fracture, is a fracture of the distal radius. Although it can also be caused by a direct blow to the dorsal forearm or by a fall with the wrist...
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  • Le Fort III may refer to: Le Fort fracture of skull, type III Le Fort III osteotomy This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • Thumbnail for Galeazzi fracture
    The Galeazzi fracture is a fracture of the distal third of the radius with dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint. It classically involves an isolated...
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  • general anesthesia, a patient first goes through Le Fort fracture of skull without the downfracture of maxilla. The oral surgeon also performs the midpalatal...
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  • Thumbnail for Barton's fracture
    A Barton's fracture is a type of wrist injury where there is a broken bone associated with a dislocated bone in the wrist, typically occurring after falling...
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    tibiofibular ligament, at the opposite end to a Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture The fracture commonly results from an abduction-external rotation force...
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  • Jupiter and Mehne classification Lauge-Hansen classification Le Fort fracture of skull Loder classification Mayfield classification Milch classification...
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  • the rest of the skull and then repositioning it. The Le Fort I osteotomy is named after René Le Fort's 1901 description of midface fracture patterns resulting...
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    numbness in the lip and chin. With Le Fort fractures, the midface may move relative to the rest of the face or skull. Injury mechanisms such as falls,...
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    also known as panda eyes or periorbital ecchymosis, is a sign of basal skull fracture or subgaleal hematoma, a craniotomy that ruptured the meninges...
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    The Rolando fracture is a type of broken finger involving the base of the thumb. It is an intra-articular fracture. It was first described in 1910 by Silvio...
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    Chalkstick fractures are fractures, typically of long bones, in which the fracture is transverse to the long axis of the bone, like a broken stick of chalk...
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  • The Gosselin fracture is a V-shaped fracture of the distal tibia which extends into the ankle joint and fractures the tibial plafond into anterior and...
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  • The Bosworth fracture is a rare fracture of the distal fibula with an associated fixed posterior dislocation of the proximal fibular fragment which becomes...
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  • Vancouver classification (category Bone fractures)
    management of post-operative periprosthetic femoral fractures following a hip arthroplasty. It is named for the city Vancouver, home to the University of British...
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    violence, falls or automobile accidents. Maxilla fractures are classified according to the Le Fort classification. Sometimes (e.g. in bony fish), the...
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    of the Late Cretaceous. The genus was one of the first Mesozoic marine reptiles known to science—the first fossils of Mosasaurus were found as skulls...
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    during mastication (chewing). Fracture of either plate are used in clinical medicine to distinguish the Le Fort fracture classification for high impact...
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    George E. M. Kelly (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1911)
    sacrificed himself to avoid plowing into the encampment. He died from a skull fracture at Fort Sam Houston Hospital an hour after the accident. He was buried in...
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    he struck Hayes so violently that he fractured his skull" but did not kill him. Wood, "taking the hatchet out of Billings's hand, gave the poor man two...
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    Cro-Magnon rock shelter (category Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley)
    skull fracture. As these injuries would be life-threatening even today, this suggests that Cro-Magnons relied on community support and took care of each...
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