Abusive Abdominal and Thoracic Trauma

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 149-152

  Herr, Sandra ^a   Fallat, Mary E ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal trauma; child abuse; mortality rate; trauma screening labs; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SAFETY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTUSION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LETHARGY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SKIN BRUISING; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING;

EID: 33750605078     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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