Types of skull fracture include:
- Linear skull fracture:
- A fracture that extends through the entire thickness of the skull
- Depressed skull fracture:
- Bone fragments are pushed blow the surface of the skull, against the brain.
- Caused by a high impact injury to a small area of the skull by a blunt object
- Basilar skull fracture:
- A fracture at the base of the skull
- Temporal skull fracture:
