Functional Outcomes in Children with Abusive Head Trauma Receiving Inpatient Rehabilitation Compared with Children with Nonabusive Head Trauma
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Abusive head trauma in infants and children.
Shaken baby syndrome is a term often used by physicians and the public to describe abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. Although the term is well known and has been used for a number of decades, advances in the understanding of the mechanisms and clinical spectrum of injury associated with abusive head trauma compel us to modify our terminology to keep pace with our unde...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-3476
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.10.075