Are There Hallmarks of Child Abuse? II. Non-Osseous Injuries
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ABC of child abuse. Head injuries.
Head injuries with or without fracture ofthe skull feed. Serious intracranial injury is extremely are the commonest cause ofdeath from battering, unlikely. but abdominal injury to the gut or solid organs The force entailed in physical abuse-for can mimic the signs ofhead injury and can lead to example, in swinging the child, in violent death if they are unrecognised. uncontrolled shaking, and i...
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Dr Nigel Speight, FRCP, is powerful that theyprevent the diagnosis even consultant paediatrician to being considered in quite obvious cases (see, for Durham and North.West example, case 1). Durham health autforities. All those working with children should be The ABC of Clinical warned that their overwhelming impulse on week.nThethird arltile inex confronting their first case will be to want to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Forensic Pathology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1925-3621,1925-3621
DOI: 10.23907/2016.057