Abusive head trauma: A perpetrator confesses

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-77

  Bell, Erica ^a   Shouldice, Michelle ^a   Levin, Alex V ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Retinal hemorrhage; Shaken Baby syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BATH; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROIMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; VIOLENCE;

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 79951722054     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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