Non-contrast CT demonstrates a moderate left lateral convexity epidural haematoma, measuring 18 mm in maximal depth, associated with an undisplaced left temporoparietal fracture. Thin smear subdural haematomas are seen overlying the left and right temporal lobes, with further blood seen layering on the tentorium cerebelli on the right. 18 mm haemorrhagic contusion involving the left middle/superior temporal gyrus. Left parieto-occipital subgaleal haematoma.
Mild mass effect principally from the left epidural haematoma causes local sulcal effacement and approximately 4 mm of midline shift to the right. No hydrocephalus. Basal cisterns are within normal limits.
The left parietal bone fracture extends through the region of the pterion into the squamous temporal bone and along the floor of the middle cranial fossa, passing through the foramen spinosum and stopping just short of the internal carotid canal.
A fracture through the anterior maxillary wall and floor of the left orbit is also seen, involving the inferior orbital rim and inferior orbital canal. It extends through the lateral orbital wall with probable diastasis of both the sphenozygomatic and frontozygomatic sutures.