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MBBS QUESTION #10163
Question 1
A patient sustains blunt head trauma with a fracture through the pterion. Rupture of the middle meningeal artery classically leads to bleeding that accumulates in which anatomical space?
  • Epidural (extradural) space✔️
  • Subdural space
  • Subarachnoid space
  • Subpial space
Correct Answer Explanation
The middle meningeal artery runs deep to the pterion, closely applied to the inner skull table; its rupture causes rapidly accumulating arterial blood between the skull and dura, producing a classic lens-shaped (biconvex) epidural (extradural) hematoma.