Reports of repetitive penile-genital penetration often have no definitive evidence of penetration

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Anderst, Jim ^a   Kellogg, Nancy ^a   Jung, Inkyung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Rape

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSURIA; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYMEN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PENIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINAL INJURY; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYMEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349257978     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3053     Document Type: Article

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