Clinical problems

Question 1

sugns and symptoms of basillar skull fracture

Answer 1

• Battle’s sign (bruising over the mastoid process),
• Raccoon eyes (bruising around both eyes),
• haemotympanum (blood behind the eardrum)
• CSF rhinorrhea cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak from the nose ) or ear (CSF otorrheoa)

all suggest the presence of a basilar skull fracture.

Question 2

signs & symptoms of basilar skull fractures

Answer 2

Question 3

what is Battle’s sign?

Answer 3

bruising over the mastoid process

Question 4

“Raccoon” eyes

Answer 4

bruising around both eyes)

Question 5

what is haemotympanum?

Answer 5

blood behind the eardrum

Question 6

what is CSF rhinorrhea or ear CSF otorrheoa

Answer 6

cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak from the nose or ear

Question 7

what do all these suggest of?

Question 8

what is craniosyntosis?

Answer 8

early fusion of fontanelles and sutures

Question 9

Jefferson’s Fracture

Answer 9

Axial load injuries through the head and neck ( e.g. from falling onto head from a height can cause a burst fracture of C1

,which often involves the anterior and posterior arch of atlas

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Question 10

Degenerative spine disease (if facet joints r effected by osteoarthrirtis, what can happen?

Answer 10

Question 11

what is broken in jeffersons fracture

Answer 11

Question 12

Trosier’s Sign

Answer 12

Trosier’s Sign is an enlarged, hard, left supraclavicular lymph node secondary to metastatic abdominal malignancy.