Findings in older children with abusive head injury: Does shaken-child syndrome exist?

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Salehi Had, Hani ^a   Brandt, James D ^a   Rosas, Angela J ^b   Rogers, Kristen K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Retinal hemorrhages; Shaken baby syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; CHILD; INFANT; PATHOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 33646835207     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-0811     Document Type: Article

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