Retinal hemorrhages and apparent life-threatening events

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-120

  Curcoy, Ana Isabel ^a   Trenchs, Victoria ^a   Morales, Marta ^a   Serra, Alicia ^a   Pou, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apparent life threatening event; Maltreatment; Nonaccidental head trauma; Retinal hemorrhages

Indexed keywords

APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; APNEA; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PALLOR; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SHOCK; SPAIN;

EID: 76949097637     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181cfdb6b     Document Type: Article

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