Facial bruising as a precursor to abusive head trauma

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-88

  Petska, Hillary W ^a   Sheets, Lynn K ^b   Knox, Barbara L ^a,c  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SEIZURE; SKIN BRUISING; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

CHILD ABUSE; CONTUSIONS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FACE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84871592561     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922812441675     Document Type: Article

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