Technical conduct of the child sexual abuse medical examination

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 555-566

  Finkel, Martin A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Examination technique; Sexual abuse; Videocolposcopy

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLPOSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLPOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GENITALIA; HUMANS;

EID: 0031800868     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(98)00026-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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