Characteristics that distinguish abusive from nonabusive head trauma among young children who underwent head computed tomography in Japan

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Fujiwara, Takeo ^a,b,c   Okuyama, Makiko ^c   Miyasaka, Mikiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abusive head trauma; Child abuse; Craniocerebral trauma; Shaken baby syndrome; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 54049107302     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0387     Document Type: Article

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