AIMS To determine whether abused and non-abused children differ in the extent and pattern of bruising, and whether any differences which exist are sufficiently great to develop a score to assist in the diagnosis of abuse. METHODS Total length of bruising in 12 areas of the body was determined in 133 physically abused and 189 control children aged 1-14 years. RESULTS Our method of recording ...

This paper provides an analysis of the procedures adopted by statutory safeguarding partners throughout England in response to finding bruising premobile infants. Against backdrop empirical research, we begin challenging view that infants can be considered rare and thus suggestive physical abuse. Then, within procedure themselves, point differences definitions what constitutes a child, interpre...

Accepted 20 August 1997 A 75-year-old widow who lived alone with little social support was admitted to hospital after she was found by neighbours collapsed. She denied any medical history of note. There was no history of alcohol abuse and she was a lifetime non-smoker. Temperature on admission was 34.9°C rectal. She was noted to have extensive bruising over her legs and had spontaneous bleeding...

Autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome (AES) was first described by Gardner and Diamond in 1955, when four women with painful bruising were depicted. Patients with AES typically present with the development of recurrent, spontaneous, painful ecchymosis, frequently preceded by a prodrome of pain or itching of the skin. The patients are sensitive to their own red blood cells injected intradermall...