Dural haemorrhage in non-traumatic infant deaths: Does it explain the bleeding in 'shaken baby syndrome'?

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-22

  Geddes, J F ^a,e   Tasker, R C ^b   Hackshaw, A K ^a   Nickols, C D ^a   Adams, G G W ^c   Whitwell, H L ^d   Scheimberg, I ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infant head injury; Non accidental injury; Subdural haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CADAVER; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DURA MATER; HEAD INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURA MATER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 0037324484     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.2003.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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