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LINEAR FRACTURE |
most skull fractures are linear, do not present with deformity or depression |
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DEPRESSED FRACTURE |
noticeable on palpation, brain injury due to bone being displaced into brain tissue |
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SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE |
bleeding in subarachnoid space -blood enters cerebrospinal fluid -due to trauma or ruptured aneurysm |
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HERNIATION SYNDROME |
pressure within the skull called intracranial pressure brain compressed due to excessive ICP |
