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Parenchymal Insults in Abuse—A Potential Key to Diagnosis

Diagnostics, 2022
Subdural hemorrhage is a key imaging finding in cases of abusive head trauma and one that many radiologists and radiology trainees become familiar with during their years of training.
Marguerite M. Caré
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New Insights into the Diagnosis and Age Determination of Retinal Hemorrhages from Abusive Head Trauma: A Systematic Review

Diagnostics, 2023
(1) Background: Head trauma represents the first cause of death in abused children, but diagnostic knowledge is still limited. The characteristic findings of abusive head trauma (AHT) are retinal hemorrhages (RH) and additional ocular findings, including
Nicola Di Fazio, Giuseppe Delogu, Donato Morena, Luigi Cipolloni, Matteo Scopetti, Sara Mazzilli, Paola Frati, Vittorio Fineschi   +7 more
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Pediatric abusive head trauma: case report and literature review

, 2021
O presente trabalho teve como finalidade relatar um caso de abuso infantil em que ocorreu um trauma craniano violento, popularmente conhecido como “shaken baby syndrome” ou síndrome do bebê sacudido.
Santos, Leandro Gouveia dos, Antônio, Ana Maria do Amaral, Camargo, Ana Luísa de, Palhares, Renata Bacic, Lee, Alice Cunha, Lucena, Clarissa Henriques de   +5 more
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Neonatal Abusive Head Trauma without External Injuries: Suspicion Improves Diagnosis

Children, 2022
The term “shaken baby syndrome” has been replaced by “abusive head trauma (AHT)” based on the mechanism of injury. The reported mortality rate of AHT ranges from 10% to 30%. Up to two-thirds of survivors suffer from serious long-term disabilities.
Seokwon Yoon, Juyoung Lee, Yong Hoon Jun, Ga Won Jeon   +3 more
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Shaken Baby Syndrome: literature review in the last 5 years

Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2020
Background: The aim of this study was to perform a narrative review on what the literature about shaken baby syndrome brought us in the last five years.
Maycon Cristian Gomes De Paula, Carlos Umberto Pereira, Nícollas Nunes Rabelo   +2 more
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Violent Infant Surrogate Shaking: Continuous High-Magnitude Centripetal Force and Abrupt Shift in Tangential Acceleration May Explain High Risk of Subdural Hemorrhage

Neurotrauma Reports, 2021
Violent shaking is believed to be a common mechanism of injury in pediatric abusive head trauma. Typical intracranial injuries include subdural and retinal hemorrhages.
Arne Stray-Pedersen, Frode Strisland, Torleiv Ole Rognum, Luuk Antoon Hubertus Schiks, Arjo Jozef Loeve   +4 more
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Brain injury biomechanics and abusive head trauma

Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2018
Contemporary biomechanical theory of traumatic brain injury has its foundation in Holbourn's thesis on shear strain and Ommaya's primate experimentation demonstrating the role of rotation in a variety of lesions including subdural hematoma (SDH) and ...
Rudy J Castellani, Carl J Schmidt
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Abusive head trauma among children in Alaska: a population-based assessment [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background. Serious physical abuse resulting in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been implicated as an underreported cause of infant mortality. Nearly 80% of all abusive head trauma (AHT) occurs among children <2 years of age, with infants ...
Jared Parrish, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, Margaret Volz, Yvonne Goldsmith   +3 more
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Denialism Preserves Scientific Controversies: a Case Study of Abusive Head Trauma Research

, 2020
The traditional theory of abusive head trauma requires scientific scrutiny. Those who question the validity of this theory have been accused of denialism for the purpose of obfuscating evidence in legal settings and supporting abusive caregivers.
Lynøe, Niels, Eriksson, Anders, Eriksson, Anders,   +2 more
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Occult child abuse presenting as pneumatosis intestinalis and portomesenteric venous gas - a case report

BMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background Pneumatosis intestinalis and portomesenteric venous gas are usually caused by necrotizing enterocolitis; however they can occur secondary to abusive abdominal trauma with bone fractures and bruising.
En-Pei Lee, Jainn-Jim Lin, Shao-Hsuan Hsia, Oi-Wa Chan, Han-Ping Wu   +4 more
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