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Figure 2: 22-year-old drunken patient having received blows to the face.

a) Conventional radiography of the paranasal sinuses. Suboptimal image quality due to lack of compliance. There is a fracture of the lateral aspects of both maxillary sinuses (arrow), additional fractures are not detectable.

b) CT of the midface, coronal plane; fracture of the floor of the orbit (arrow) and intraorbital air (arrowhead).

c) CT of the midface allows precise determination of the extent of the fracture (arrow).