Abusive head trauma: Judicial admissions highlight violent and repetitive shaking

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 546-555

  Adamsbaum, Catherine ^a,b   Grabar, Sophie ^a,c   Mejean, Nathalie ^b   Rey Salmon, Caroline ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

^c Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Cochin Hospital ^*  (France)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Abusive head trauma; Child abuse; Subdural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ABUSIVE HEAD TRAUMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OFFENDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEWBORN; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 77956273900     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3647     Document Type: Article

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