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Child Abuse: Imaging and Legal Aspects

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Abstract

In 1860, Ambroise Tardieu described in small children a series of traumatic lesions with common characteristics indicating physical maltreatment: 55% of these cases involved children younger than 5 years, and 30% were under 1 year [1]. In 1946, Caffey reported the frequent association of central nervous system injuries with bony lesions. Since then, various terms have been used in reference to this constellation of symptoms, such as Ambroise-Tardieu syndrome, Caffey-Silverman syndrome, parent-infant trauma syndrome, battered child syndrome, and non-accidental-injury (NAI) [2, 3].

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Defilippi, C., Cotti, R. (2012). Child Abuse: Imaging and Legal Aspects. In: Romano, L., Pinto, A. (eds) Errors in Radiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2339-0_22

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