Lack of evidence for a causal relationship between hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and subdural hemorrhage in fetal life, infancy, and early childhood

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 348-350

  Byard, Roger W ^a   Blumbergs, Peter ^b   Rutty, Guy ^c   Sperhake, Jan ^d   Banner, Jytte ^e   Krous, Henry F ^f  

^a FORENSIC SCIENCE SA   (Australia)

^b HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; Non accidental head injury; Shaken infant syndrome; Subdural hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASPIRATION; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD DEATH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DENMARK; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD; GERMANY; GESTATION PERIOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STOMACH CONTENT; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TOXICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 35948929101     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/06-08-0154.1     Document Type: Article

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