What injury is skull base fracture

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Fracture is a common bone disease, such as skull base fracture is a typical case, but the location of the disease is relatively special. Let's see what the skull base fracture is.

What injury is skull base fracture

First of all, the anterior fossa, the middle fossa and the posterior fossa of the skull base are arranged in a ladder shape from front to back. Because there are uneven bone holes and fissures of different sizes to accommodate cranial nerves and blood vessels, the corresponding symptoms and signs are easy to appear in the skull base fracture.

Secondly, most of the skull base fractures are the extension of the fracture line of the skull cap fracture to the skull base, mainly linear fractures; when the fracture line passes through the paranasal sinus or petromastoid air chamber and connects with the nasal cavity or external auditory canal, and accompanied by dural rupture, occult open fractures are formed.

Finally: different from the skull base fracture, the diagnosis of skull base fracture mainly depends on the above typical clinical symptoms and signs. The measurement of the thickness of the soft tissue in the back of nasopharynx can be used as a reference, and the intracranial pneumatosis found by imaging examination is an important evidence of skull base fracture.

matters needing attention

Skull base fracture is a chronic disease, need long-term care, in addition to timely treatment after the disease, usually pay attention to rest, eat some nutritious food, strive to recover as soon as possible.