Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma

Which of the following is the most common fracture of the skull?
  1. Linear fracture
  2. Depressed fracture
  3. Basilar
  4. Diastatic
  5. All of the above
Explanation
Answer: A - Linear skull fractures are most common fractures of the skull.
Linear skull fractures are breaks in the bone that transverse the full thickness of the skull from the outer to inner table. They are usually fairly straight with no bone displacement. The common cause of injury is blunt force trauma where the impact energy transferred over a wide area of the skull they are of little clinical significance
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