Rare retinal haemorrhages in translational accidental head trauma in children

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1535-1541

  Sturm, V ^a   Knecht, P B ^a   Landau, K ^a   Menke, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accidental head injury; Retinal haemorrhages; Shaken baby syndrome; Skull fracture

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORBIT FRACTURE; ORBIT RECONSTRUCTION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 67749147287     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.317     Document Type: Article

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