Final Review

Question 1

What is the exact location of the Pituitary Gland?

Answer 1

Sella Turcica

Question 2

What bone is the Sella Turcica a part of?

Answer 2

Sphenoid Bone
(Middle Cranial Fossa)

Question 3

Hematoma where the Dura is peeled off of the skull.

Answer 3

Epidural Hematoma

Question 4

What kind of blood is found in an Epidural Hematoma?

Answer 4

Arterial Blood

Question 5

What shape does an Epidural Hematoma typically have?

Answer 5

Lenticular
(Lens Shaped)

Question 6

A hematoma where patients may be lucid for several hours following the initial injury before the onset of neurologic signs that then tend to progress rapidly.

Answer 6

Epidural Hematoma

Question 7

What type of hematoma does NOT typically cross suture lines?

Answer 7

Epidural Hematoma

Question 8

Hematoma where the Dura is still attached to the skull.

Answer 8

Subdural Hematoma

Question 9

What kind of blood is found in a Subdural Hematoma?

Answer 9

Venous Blood

Question 10

What shaped does a Subdural Hematoma typically have?

Answer 10

Crescent Shaped

Question 11

Type of hematoma where since the brain is floating freely, bathed in CSF and can move in the skull, but the venous sinuses are fixed and the displacement of the brain that occurs in trauma such as fall can tear the bridging veins.

Answer 11

Subdural Hematoma

Question 12

Hemorrhage that is due to a ruptured Berry Aneurysm.

Answer 12

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Question 13

What will a patient with a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage complain of?

Answer 13

Thunderclap Headache
(Worst Headache of my Life)

Question 14

Plexus that continues with the veins of the orbits, face and Cavernous Venous Sinus.

Answer 14

Pterygoid Venous Plexus

Question 15

Veins that provides a direct route for infection from the orbit and face to the cavernous sinus

Answer 15

Ophthalmic Veins

Question 16

Allows movement of the Pharynx, Esophagus, Larynx, and Trachea when swallowing.

Answer 16

Retropharyngeal Space

Question 17

What is clinically important about the Retropharyngeal Space?

Answer 17

Major Pathway for Infection

Question 18

What closes the Retropharyngeal Space?

Answer 18

Base of Cranium (Superior)
Carotid Sheath (Lateral)

Question 19

Infection between the investing layer and muscular part of the pretracheal fascia surrounding the infra hyoid muscles, the infection usually does NOT spread beyond the manubrium of the Sternum.

Answer 19

Retropharyngeal Abscess

Question 20

If an infection is between the Investing Fascia and Pretraceal Fascia, where might it spread to?

Answer 20

Thorax
(Mediastinitis)

Question 21

Considered to be among the most serious of deep neck infections.

Answer 21

Retropharyngeal Abscess

Question 22

What two things may cause a Retropharyngeal Abscess in adults?

Answer 22

Pott’s Disease
Foreign Body Impaction

Question 23

What is the most common orbital fracture?

Answer 23

Blowout Fractures

Question 24

What is the most common location of an Orbital Blowout Fracture

Answer 24

Orbital Floor

Question 25

What percentage of Blowout Fractures will have ocular injury?

Answer 25

30%

Question 26

What is blow out fracture called when the orbital rim is intact?

Answer 26

Pure Blowout Fracture

Question 27

What three arteries supply the Thyroid?

Answer 27

Superior Thyroid
Inferior Thyroid
Thyroid Ima

Question 28

Dural infolding that separates the Right Cerebral Hemisphere from the Left Cerebral Hemisphere.

Answer 28

Cerebral Falx

Question 29

Dural fold that separates the Occipital Lobes from the Cerebellum. Due to where it attaches it has a “tented” appearance.

Answer 29

Tentorium Cerebelli

Question 30

Midbrain reaches the Middle Fossa via what?

Answer 30

Tentorial Notch

Question 31

Common origin of Anterior Epistaxis

Answer 31

Kiesselbach Plexus

Question 32

What 5 arteries make up the Kiesselbach Plexus?

Answer 32

Anterior Ethmoid
Posterior Ethmoid
Sphenopalantine
Greater Palantine
Superior Labial