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04/18/06 - 06:40 PM

Following a car accident, a patient presents with a clear fluid leaking from his ear and bruising in the mastoid region (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Battle's sign). Which one of the following injuries is most likely?

1) foramen magnum fracture

2) fracture of the supraorbital ridge

3) middle cranial fossa fracture

4) linear fracture of the vault of skull

5) ethmoid bone fracture

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04/18/06 - 06:50 PM

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04/18/06 - 07:08 PM

middle cranial fossa fracture

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04/18/06 - 10:29 PM

basilar skull fracture - so 1 ?

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04/18/06 - 11:48 PM

If I'm not mistaken, petrous temporal bone is in middle fossa cranii- so it's #3 then?

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04/19/06 - 09:08 AM

3 IS THE ANSWER

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04/29/06 - 08:22 AM

They will ask a lot of head trauma questions in MCC

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04/29/06 - 08:23 AM

clear fluid in the nose---fracture of the naso bone

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04/30/06 - 07:17 AM

3. Middle cranial fossa fracture involving the petrous temporal bone, says my Surgery book, presents with CSF otorrhoea (or rhinorrhoea via the Eustachian tube), hemotympanum, ossicular disruption, Battle sign or 7 and 8 cranial nerve palsies.

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They will ask a lot of head trauma questions in MCC

MCC?

Edited by frontal on 04/30/06 - 07:29 AM

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04/30/06 - 11:00 AM

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Somehow he reminded me of a guy I knew-pressired speech, feeling of grandiosity wink

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04/30/06 - 12:00 PM

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