Shaken baby syndrome: Does it exist?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-134

  Talbert, D G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN CONTUSION; COMA; DYSPHAGIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINOPATHY; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SHEAR STRESS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; WHIPLASH INJURY;

BIOMECHANICS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

PRIMATES;

EID: 57749201599     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.09.038     Document Type: Article

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