Nasal Bone Fracture Detected by Bedside Emergency Department Ultrasonography
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Nasal Bone Fracture Detected by Bedside Emergency Department Ultrasonography

Eurasian J Emerg Med 2010;9:148-149 DOI: 10.5152/jaem.2010.002
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Abstract

A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency department with nasal fracture after a personal assault. The nasal bone appeared as a hyperecogenic structure on ultrasonographic examination and the irregularity and displacement of the bone was recognized. The evaluation of nasal bone fractures by ultrasonography is a proposed method involving no radiation exposure, rapid topographic evaluation and bedside application.

Keywords: Nasal fracture, ultrasonography, emergency department