“…Fractures of the skull base can be associated with neurovascular injury, 1,16,28,29,32,36 but only a few reports have analyzed this association in detail. In a series of five patients with fractures of the sella, Young and colleagues 36 found (16) 0 (0) 0.167 cribriform plate (10) 0 (0) 0.300 floor of middle fossa (9) 0 (0) 0.320 one case of associated neurovascular injury. Unger and coworkers 29 found two instances of pseudoaneurysm formation and one case of laceration of the ICA in a retrospective chart review of 66 cases of sphenoid bone fractures.…”