All are true about ansverse fracture of temporal bone except:
Facial nerve commonly involved
Sensorinueral deafness
Conductive deafness
These fractures are less common
Transverse fracture of temporal bone
facial nerve palsies (disruption of fallopian canal containing the facial nerve)
sensorineural hearing loss (disruptionof vestibulocochlear nerve)
vertigo
injury to the internal carotid artery and/or jugular vein
fracture through the tegmen tympani results in CSF otorrhoea