Erratum to: Encephalopathy and death in infants with abusive head trauma is due to hypoxic-ischemic injury following local brain trauma to vital brainstem centers [International Journal of Legal Medicine, DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1060-7];Encephalopathy and death in infants with abusive head trauma is due to hypoxic-ischemic injury following local brain trauma to vital brainstem centers

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 105-114

  Matschke, Jakob ^a   Büttner, Andreas ^b   Bergmann, Markus ^c   Hagel, Christian ^a   Püschel, Klaus ^a   Glatzel, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abusive head trauma; Child abuse; Diffuse axonal injury; Neuropathology; Non accidental head injury; Shaken baby syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CHILD ABUSE; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INJURIES; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; CHILD ABUSE; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EYE HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 84939875092     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1087-9     Document Type: Erratum

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