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Brain and Head Injury is any trauma or injury occurring to the scalp,…
Brain and Head Injury is any trauma or injury occurring to the scalp, skull or brain
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Skull Fractures
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Simple fracture can be either linear or depressed without fragmentation or communicating lacerations
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Comminuted fractures are multiple linear fractures causing fragmentation of the bones into many pieces
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Complications of skull fractures are intracranial infections, haematoma, meningeal and brain tissue damage
Symptoms of Skull Fractures - determined by the location and severity and normally develop over several hours
Frontal Fractures symptoms include air in the sinus, forehead tissue or between the cranium and dura matter
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Prietal Fracture symptoms include deafness, bulging of the tympanic membrane, facial paralysis, battle sign or loss of taste
Posterior Fossa Fracture symptoms include occipital bruising, visual defects or ataxia
Basilar Skull Fractures symptoms include vertigo, facial paralysis and hearing difficulty
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