Yakup Çil1, Erkan Kahraman. 1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Eskişehir Military Hospital, Eskişehir, Turkey. yakupcil@yahoo.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Nasal fracture is generally encountered alone or in combination with other serious injuries. The objective of this study was to analyze patients who had pure nasal fracture. METHODS: Forty-five records from patients with pure nasal fracture treated in the hospital between 7 October 2005 and 14 December 2011 were included. The following nasal fracture criteria were evaluated: age at the time of nasal trauma, gender, accident type, use of alcohol, findings of the physical examination, treatment time after the nasal fracture, and year and seasonal distribution. RESULTS: The age ranged from 6-32 years, with a mean age of 21 years. The most frequent reasons of the injury were violence 60% (27 cases) followed by falling 31% (14 cases), accidents 4.5% (2 cases) and sport injuries 4.5% (2 cases). The most frequent findings were tenderness in 71.1% (32 cases), followed by swelling in 51.1% (23 cases), nasal deviation in 42.2% (19 cases), and epistaxis in 15.6% (7 cases). Nasal bone fracture was diagnosed exactly by standard X-ray films in 91.1% (41 cases). CONCLUSION: In this study; pure nasal bone fractures occurred primarily among men under 25 years of age, and fights were found to be the main etiologic factor.
BACKGROUND: Nasal fracture is generally encountered alone or in combination with other serious injuries. The objective of this study was to analyze patients who had pure nasal fracture. METHODS: Forty-five records from patients with pure nasal fracture treated in the hospital between 7 October 2005 and 14 December 2011 were included. The following nasal fracture criteria were evaluated: age at the time of nasal trauma, gender, accident type, use of alcohol, findings of the physical examination, treatment time after the nasal fracture, and year and seasonal distribution. RESULTS: The age ranged from 6-32 years, with a mean age of 21 years. The most frequent reasons of the injury were violence 60% (27 cases) followed by falling 31% (14 cases), accidents 4.5% (2 cases) and sport injuries 4.5% (2 cases). The most frequent findings were tenderness in 71.1% (32 cases), followed by swelling in 51.1% (23 cases), nasal deviation in 42.2% (19 cases), and epistaxis in 15.6% (7 cases). Nasal bone fracture was diagnosed exactly by standard X-ray films in 91.1% (41 cases). CONCLUSION: In this study; pure nasal bone fractures occurred primarily among men under 25 years of age, and fights were found to be the main etiologic factor.