The Whiplash Shaken Infant Syndrome: Has Caffey's syndrome changed or have we changed his syndrome?

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1009-1014

  Lazoritz, Stephen ^a,b   Baldwin, Sandra ^a   Kini, Narendra ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Child abuse; Shaken infant syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAFFEY DISEASE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 0030804285     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(97)00061-6     Document Type: Article

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