All are the false statements about extra dural hemorrhage except:
Correct Answer: Associated only with Traumatic etiology
Description: Extradural hemorrhage: Least common intracranial hemorrhage (10%) Mostly traumatic in origin, and unilateral. It occurs usually on the side of the impact (coup injury) Site and Vessels Involved Blow Impact over lateral convexity of head - fissure fracture of squamous temporal bone - rupture of underlying middle . meningeal aery. (Under the pterion, the anterior branch of middle meningeal aery present, not the posterior branch.) Sequence of unConsiousness - consciousness- unconsciousness seen. Dilation of pupil on the side of hemorrhage with conjugate detion of eyes to opposite side. Lucid interval is a state of consciousness between two episodes of unconsciousness. it is present in around 40 % cases of EDH
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