Le Fort III fracture

Le Fort III fracture
a fracture in which the entire maxilla and one or more facial bones are completely separated from the craniofacial skeleton; such fractures are almost always accompanied by multiple fractures of the facial bones. Called also craniofacial disjunction and transverse facial f.

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