Epidural hemorrhage: Is it abuse?

Pediatrics

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 664-668

  Shugerman, Richard P ^a,c   Paez, Angela ^a   Grossman, David C ^a,b   Feldman, Kenneth W ^a   Sean Grady, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

child abuse; epidural hemorrhage; subdural hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL INJURY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; SKULL FRACTURES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029917706     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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