This injury used to be really common in Nascar prior to the HANS device being mandated.
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It’s really not a fatal injury most of the time, in fact the opposite – it’s very rarely fatal. Like most things in medicine, its meaning gets lost in translation. So you can have two people with a BSF and one might be thriving and doing well, and the other on death’s door. It’s an all-encompassing term more than anything particularly descriptive.
If you are a viking and you drink your wine out of skulls, the “cup” of the skull is the [base of the skull.](https://images.app.goo.gl/sZJzjsivZdFQXf8q7) A fracture of this part of the skull is a basilar skull fracture.
Roughly, you can divide the skull into the calvaria or skull cap (this is what you removed to make your viking cub), the bones of the face, and the skull base.
The base of the skull involves some complex anatomy, including important structures for hearing, tunnels for cranial nerves to enter and exit, and some paranasal sinuses you probably didn’t know you had!
Importantly, it is the skull base on which the brain and its sack (the meninges) sit. Fracture of this seat can cause spinal fluid to leak out, air or infection to leak in, or blood to accumulate in or around the brain’s sack.
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