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Non-Accidental Injury in Infants and Children: Evidence-Based Emergency Imaging

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Child abuse is a world-wide problem, with both short and long term consequences, and the radiologist can be one of the first to suggest a diagnosis of child abuse. Timely detection of physical child abuse can be important to prevent further harm to the child in question. In this chapter radiological findings in young children, e.g. subdural hematoma and posterior rib fractures, which are strong indicators for child abuse are discussed and the evidence base is presented.

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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Wouter A. Karst

  2. Department of Pediatric Radiology, Emma Children’s Hospital/Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rick R. van Rijn

  3. Department of Forensic Medicine, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rick R. van Rijn

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  1. Department of Radiology, Division of Cardio-Thoracic Radiology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Aine Kelly

  2. Department of Radiology, Division of Cardio-Thoracic Radiology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Paul Cronin

  3. Department of Diagnostic, Interventional, and Pediatric Radiology Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Stefan Puig

  4. Department of Radiology, University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Lexington, KY, USA

    Kimberly E. Applegate

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Karst, W.A., van Rijn, R.R. (2018). Non-Accidental Injury in Infants and Children: Evidence-Based Emergency Imaging. In: Kelly, A., Cronin, P., Puig, S., Applegate, K. (eds) Evidence-Based Emergency Imaging. Evidence-Based Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67066-9_34

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