Apparent life-threatening event or child abuse?

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 245-246

  Waseem, Muhammad ^a   Pinkert, Heidi ^a  

^a LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent life threatening event; Child abuse; Head injury; Subdural hematoma

Indexed keywords

APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

CHILD ABUSE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PEDIATRICS; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 33646824376     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000210176.48386.ae     Document Type: Article

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