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Skull fracture, could this cause you to have a brain hemorrhage?
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Dr. James Goodrichanswered
Neurosurgery 41 years experience
Skull fracture: Hemorrhage depends on the severity of the skull fracture. You can have fractures with no hemorrhage at all and then you can have severe, even life threatening hemorrhages within the brain. The bleeding is mostly related to the severity of the impact to the skull.
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