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Abstract

Young children regularly fall, and quite often they fall on their head. It is unknown how often this results in a skull fracture, since it is rarely indicated to perform a diagnostic examination, such as a radiograph or a CT scan. When there are no neurological symptoms, a radiograph of the skull is not clinically indicated (see Sect. 2.5). However, from a forensic point of view, a radiograph of the skull is indicated - especially when the child is less than 1 year old. This also applies when there are no neurological symptoms (see Sect. 2.6), even though a normal X-ray of the skull does not exclude intracranial injury.

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