Traumatic head injury Radiology 3-13-14

Question 1

Subgaleal hematoma - how does this appear on imaging

Answer 1

Crosses sutures and grows

Question 2

Subperiosteal hematoma- can it be present since birth

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

True or false - sutures can be points of fractures

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Location of metopic suture

Answer 4

Between frontal bones

Question 5

Where do you find Wormian bones

Answer 5

Normal funding between lambdoid sutures

Can cause confusion and concern for fractures look for symmetry

Question 6

What is the medorsal suture

Answer 6

runs through occipital bone separating superior from inferior

Question 7

How do you know you are looking at a suture

Answer 7

Same width as other sutures, symmetry

Question 8

How much of a depression is required in the skull for neurosurgery to repair

Answer 8

> 5mm

Question 9

True or false it is common to find skull fractures without blood or brain injury in infants

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or false temporal bone fractures and more common than transverse

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or false temporal bone fractures are likely to result in facial nerve injury

Answer 11

False