1. IMAGING OF TEMPORAL BONE FRACTURES BY HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY.
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Mayaya, Petra Caroline, Burduloi, V. M., Perianu, Lăcrămioara, and Mereuță, D.
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BONE fractures ,SKULL fractures ,SKULL base ,FACIAL paralysis ,CEREBRAL angiography ,SYMPTOMS ,TEMPORAL bone - Abstract
Temporal bone fractures represent 22-66% of all skull fractures and most of them are associated with severe brain injury and are diagnosed by high-resolution computed tomography (CT). The authors performed a retrospective analysis of all trauma cases examined by high resolution CT over a 6-month period in an emergency service. From 126 patients examined for traumatic injuries, 47 (37.3%) presented cerebral or cranial lesions based on CT examinations and in 8 cases temporal bone fractures were diagnosed. 3 of the 8 analysed cases temporal bone fractures were suspected based on symptoms like otohematorrhea (2 cases) and facial palsy (1 case). The rest of 5 patients were investigated for suspicion of cranial or intracranial lesion with no specific clinical sign upon admission. The CT examination was performed as early as a few hours to as late as several weeks after the initial trauma. Epidemiological and radiological considerations are presented together with a pictorial review thus underlying the complexity of the temporal bone fractures. CT is the best initial and key radiological investigation in assessing temporal bone trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022