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Disease Information for Basilar skull fracture (Clinical Manifestations)
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Fractures which extend through the base of the SKULL, usually involving the PETROUS BONE. Battle's sign (characterized by skin discoloration due to extravasation of blood into the subcutaneous tissue behind the ear and over the mastoid process), CRANIAL NEUROPATHIES, TRAUMATIC; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; and CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA are relatively frequent sequelae of this condition. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p876)
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- NEJM (The New England Journal of Medicine)
Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Pain Swelling Neck Posterior One side
- Pain/swelling occiput area
- Acute ataxia
- Ataxia
- Ataxia
- Cranial nerve abnormalities/involvement/signs
- Dizziness/Dizzy
- Headache/pain, basioccipital
- Occipital Headache
- Staggering Gait
- Vertigo
- Mastoid Pain
- Anosmia/Loss of sense of smell
- Nerve deafness, recent onset
- Acute Hearing Loss
- Bleeding from ear
- Blood behind eardrum/sign
- Edema/swelling mastoid area
- Otorrhea/draining ear
- Postauricular Swelling Edema
- Red eardrum
- Sudden deafness
- Unilateral sudden deafness
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Signs & Symptoms
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