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Comminuted open fracture pictures skin#
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The skin may be pierced by the bone or by a blow that breaks the skin at the time of the fracture. The broken ends of the bone line up and are barely out of place. This type of fracture is particularly serious because once the skin is broken, infection in both the wound and the bone can occur. If the bone breaks in such a way that bone fragments stick out through the skin, or a wound penetrates down to the broken bone, the fracture is called an open fracture. If the force is extreme, such as that caused by an automobile crash or gunshot, the bone may shatter.

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If the bone's breaking point has been exceeded only slightly, the bone may crack rather than break all the way through. The severity of a fracture usually depends on the force that caused the break. However, if the force is too great, bones will break, just as a plastic ruler breaks when it is bent too far. Although bones are rigid, they do bend, or give, somewhat when an outside force is applied. See also the corresponding sagittal CT image From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. Despite lack of underlying associated brain injury this fracture required operative debridement and elevation of the bone fragments. The level of depression is greater than the bony table and there are a number of bone fragments impacted below the inner cortex of the opposing bone (large arrow). : Coronal CT of an open, comminuted, depressed skull fracture. See also the corresponding coronal CT image From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. Note the associated pneumocephalus (small arrows). : Sagittal CT images of an open, comminuted, depressed skull fracture. Note the air in the soft tissues (small arrow), the small amount of pneumocephalus associated with the fracture (circle), and that the level of elevation of the bone fragment is significantly more than the thickness of the bony table From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. : Axial CT scan demonstrating open elevated linear skull fracture (large arrow). : Depressed skull fracture: level of depression equal to thickness of cortex From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. : Comminuted depressed fracture of the frontal sinus with air, fluid, and bone fragments in frontal sinus and pneumocephalus level of depression greater than width of cortex From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission.

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: Comminuted depressed skull fracture with pneumocephalus From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. : Comminuted nondepressed fracture From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. This injury pattern is concerning for associated spinal fracture, cord injury, and blunt cerebrovascular injury From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. : Axial CT scan showing nondepressed linear skull fracture (arrow) of the skull base involving the foramen magnum. : Axial CT scan demonstrating an open nondepressed linear skull fracture (arrow) associated with pneumocephalus (circle) From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. : Linear parietal fracture without depression From the teaching collection of Demetrios Demetriades used with permission. Skull fractures may be linear or comminuted comminuted fractures are complex with multiple fracture lines. Open fractures communicate with the skin through a wound, a sinus, the ear, or the oropharynx. They are categorized according to the appearance, location, degree of depression, and if they are open or closed. Skull fracture refers to a fracture of one or more bones of the cranial vault or skull base.

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