The older, dark-brown, bloody fluid in this right middle ear has colored the tympanic membrane black.
Reproduced with permission from: Garcia M. Basilar Skull Fracture. In: Greenberg's Text-Atlas of Emergency Medicine, Greenberg MI, Hendrickson RG, Silverberg M, et al. (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005. Copyright © 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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