A 40-year-old woman was involved in a car crash. She was unconscious for 5 minutes. X-ray revealed a depressed fracture in the frontal region. Which of the following statements is true of skull fracture?
Skull fractures should be explored only if they are compound, if a depressed fracture is present, or if an intracranial lesion requires exploration. Compound fracture implies that the fracture site communicates with the exterior. Rhinorrhea is caused by leakage of CSF through a fractured cribriform plate.
It always requires surgical exploration.
It is compound if multiple.
It requires burr holes if compound.
In the anterior cranial fossa, it may produce rhinorrhea.
Trauma