You are attending to a 16 year old boy who has been hit by a baseball on the left side of his face during a game. He is bleeding from his left nostril, cannot move his left eye upward and the left side of his cheek is numb. You should suspect a

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A blowout fracture is suspected due to the inability to move the left eye upward (indicating entrapment of the inferior rectus muscle), numbness on the cheek (indicating infraorbital nerve involvement), and bleeding from the nostril (suggesting trauma in the maxillofacial area). These symptoms are consistent with a blowout fracture, which occurs when there is a fracture of the orbital floor caused by a direct blow to the orbit, leading to increased pressure and subsequent fracturing of the thin bones of the orbit.

You Are Attending to a 16 Year Old Boy Who