Motor vehicle crash brain injury in infants and toddlers: A suitable model for inflicted head injury?

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 953-967

  Shah, Mahim ^a,b   Vavilala, Monica S ^a,b,c   Feldman, Kenneth W ^a,c,d   Hallam, Daniel K ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Odessa Brown Children's Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Concussion; Head injury; Infants and toddlers; Motor vehicle crash; Subdural hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; AMBULANCE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; X RAY FILM;

EID: 24944576651     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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