Comparison of accidental and nonaccidental traumatic head injury in children on noncontrast computed tomography

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 626-633

  Tung, Glenn A ^a   Kumar, Monica ^a   Richardson, Randal C ^a   Jenny, Carole ^a   Brown, William D ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Accidents; Brain imaging; Retinal hemorrhage; Subdural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; ACCIDENT; BIRTH INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD ABUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FALLING; INFANT; NEWBORN; RADIOGRAPHY; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BIRTH INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKULL FRACTURE, DEPRESSED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33748439417     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0130     Document Type: Article

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