Skull And Cranial

Question 1

Linear Fractures

Answer 1

Fractures of the skull that may appear as jagged or irregular lucent lines that lie at right angles to the axis of the bone

Question 2

Depressed Fractures (Ping-Pong Fractures)

Answer 2

A fragment of bone that is separated and depressed into the cranial cavity can occur.

Question 3

Basal Skull Fractures

Answer 3

Fractures through the dense inner structures of the temporal bone

Question 4

Neoplasms

Answer 4

New and abnormal growths

Question 5

Metastases

Answer 5

Primary malignant neoplasms that spread to distant sites via blood and the lymphatic system

Question 6

Pituitary Adenomas

Answer 6

Enlargement of the sella turcica and erosion of the forum sellae

Question 7

Paget Disease (Osteitis Deformans)

Answer 7

A disease of unknown origin that begins as a stage of bony destruction followed by bony repair

Question 8

Acute Mastoiditis (Temporal Bone Pathology)

Answer 8

A bacterial infection of the mastoid process that can destroy the inner part of the mastoid process.