Fractures Resulting From Inflicted Trauma: Assessing Injury and History Compatibility

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 143-148

  Pierce, Mary Clyde ^a   Bertocci, Gina ^a,b  

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

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

fractures; inflicted trauma; injury plausibility

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ANAMNESIS; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INJURY; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PELVIS FRACTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIUS FRACTURE; RIB FRACTURE; SKIN BRUISING; SPLINTING; SYMPTOM;

EID: 33750631982     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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