Bruises, blood coagulation tests and the battered child syndrome.

Significance of platelet function diagnostics for clarification of suspected battered child syndrome.

The manifestation of an unclear bleeding tendency in childhood calls for an extended coagulation work-up, particularly when a battered child syndrome is suspected and typical concomitant injuries are absent. The chosen diagnostic tests should be able to detect the presence of relatively common coagulation defects such as von Willebrand syndrome or hemophilia, but also rare diseases such as inhe...

آزارهای بدنی اطفال بعلت سوء رفتار بزرگترها The Battered Child Syndrome

The Misuse of Abuse: Restricting Evidence of Battered Child Syndrome

The line between medicine and law has never been exactly bright. Yet when physical violence occurs, it naturally implicates both disciplines. This interdisciplinary blend is particularly evident in the case of child abuse. Thus, as child abuse became a recognized phenomenon in medical science, it also became a subject of criminal prosecution. As the scientific definition of child abuse has expa...

Coagulation testing in the evaluation of suspected child abuse.

Every year in Germany nearly 3000 cases of child abuse were reported. When children are presented at emergency units with suspicious injuries and bruises a detailed documentation an evaluation is necessary after emergency treatment. As differential diagnosis inherited or acquired bleeding disorders should be excluded. In addition to a detailed evaluation of personal and family history and a phy...

Patterns of bruising in preschool children with inherited bleeding disorders: a longitudinal study

OBJECTIVE The extent that inherited bleeding disorders affect; number, size and location of bruises in young children <6 years. DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal, observational study. SETTING Community. PATIENTS 105 children with bleeding disorders, were compared with 328 without a bleeding disorder and classified by mobility: premobile (non-rolling/rolling over/sitting), early mobile (cra...