PEDIATRIC ARDMS EXAM WITH

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PEDIATRIC ARDMS EXAM WITH

QUESTIONS AND ANSWER S

Question : Name the 6 cranial bones.

Correct answer: Frontal, Temporal, Ethmoid, Parietal,

Occipital, Sphenoid

Question : Which cranial bone is the "batwing" shaped bone?

Correct answer: Sphenoid

Question : Name the 5 major sutures of the skull

Correct answer: Coronal suture

Frontal/Metopic suture

Lambdoidal suture

Sagittal suture

Squamosal suture

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Question : What bones form the coronal suture?

Correct answer: Frontal and parietal

Question : What bones form the frontal/metopic suture?

Correct answer: The 2 frontal bones

Question : What bones form the lambdoidal suture?

Correct answer: Occipital and parietal

Question : What bones form the sagittal suture?

Correct answer: The 2 parietal bones

Question : What bones form the squamosal suture?

Correct answer: Temporal and parietal

Question : Whats the difference between craniosynostosis and

cloverleaf skull?

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Correct answer: Craniosynostosis - premature fusion of the

lambdoidal, coronal, and sagittal sutures.---- May lead to microcephaly and secondary microcephaly.

Cloverleaf skull - premature fusion of the coronal and lambdoidal sutures.---- Trilobed skull appearance ---- Children die in infancy and have profound mental deficiencies.

Question : Name the fontanelles of the skull

Correct answer: Anterior fontanelle

Posterior fontanelle

Mastoid fontanelle

Sphenoid fontanelle

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Question : Where is the anterior fontanelle located?

Correct answer: Junction of the 2 frontal bones and 2 parietal

bones

Question : Where is the posterior fontanelle located?

Correct answer: Junction of the 2 parietal bones and the

occipital bones

Question : Where is the mastoid fontanelle located?

Correct answer: Junction of the temporal, parietal, and

occipital bones

Question : Where is the sphenoid fontanelle located?

Correct answer: Formed by the frontal bone, anterior tip of the

parietal bone and temporal bone and the greqater wing of the sphenoid bone.

Question : Name the divisions of the brain

Correct answer: Prosencephalon

-- Telencephalon and diencephalon