%A Sumana J Kamath %A MG Kamath %A MM Kamath %A Shobha G Pai %A Jay Chhablani %A Somya Chowdary %J Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences %T A Study Of Orbital Fractures In A Tertiary Health Care Center %X A retrospective study of patients with orbital fractures had 48% patients in the age group of 20 ? 40 years with male : female ratio of 10:1. Road traffic accidents (71.43%) were the most common cause followed by injury due to fall (20%). Eighty five percent of patients had normal visual acuity at presentation and 65.57% patients had no ocular complaints. Diplopia was present in 14.2% of patients. Of the orbital fractures infraorbital rim was involved in 43.13%, floor in 19.6%, lateral wall in 13.7%, pure blow out in 14.28% and the roof in 2.9%. Important ocular findings were extraocular movements restriction in 9 (10.3%), infraorbital dysaesthesia in 3 (3.4%), enophthalmos in 2, RAPD and globe rupture in 1 patient each. 32 patients underwent surgical management. At the end of 4 months of follow up, 3 had restriction of EOM, 1 patient had vision loss due to globe rupture, 2 had RAPD (optic nerve compression), 1 had lagophthalmos, 1 had exotropia and 1 had atrophic bulbi. %N 1 %K Orbital fracture, Blow out, Optic nerve compression %E Dr. Srinivas Kakkilaya %V 6 %D 2007 %I Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya %L cogprints5718