A battered child case with duodenal perforation

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 259-262

  Yavuz, Mehmet Sunay ^a   Buyukyavuz, Ilker ^b   Savas, Cagri ^b   Ozguner, Ismet Faruk ^b   Kupeli, Ahmet ^b   Asirdizer, Mahmut ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Battered child syndrome; Duodenal rupture; Rib fracture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ARTICLE; BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; DUODENUM PERFORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENINGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RIB FRACTURE; RIGIDITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOMITING;

ARM INJURIES; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DUODENUM; FACIAL INJURIES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; RIB FRACTURES; RUPTURE; TURKEY;

EID: 41949089936     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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