Upper extremity trauma
Figure 4.1 Inflicted soft tissue injury simulating neoplasm. A five-month-old infant referred to oncology for a left shoulder mass of several weeks duration. A punch biopsy done elsewhere showed no…
Bony thoracic trauma
Figure 5.1 An early example of massive rib injuries in an abused infant. The presence of rib fractures is now often central to the radiologic diagnosis of child abuse. A…
Abusive head trauma: extra-axial hemorrhage and nonhemic collections
Figure 18.1 Normal dural investment of the superior sagittal dural venous sinus. A, Coronal graphic demonstrates the normal splitting of the periosteal/endosteal (outer dura) and (inner) meningeal dura (black arrows)…
Child abuse and the law I: general issues for the radiologist
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Psychosocial considerations
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Postmortem skeletal imaging
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Visceral trauma
Figure 22.1 Gastric perforation. Two-year-old abused child. The stepfather admitted to striking the child in the abdomen with his upraised knee. A, Massive free air outlines the peritoneal cavity, the…
Differential diagnosis VI: normal variants
Figure 12.1 Physiologic SPNBF. A, Anteroposterior (AP) view of the left femur in a two-month-old infant demonstrates SPNBF along the medial (open arrow) and lateral (solid arrows) aspects of the…
Abusive head trauma: scalp, subscalp, and cranium
Figure 17.1 Normal scalp anatomy. Anatomic representation illustrating the various anatomic layers of the scalp, using the mnemonic SCALP (Skin, Connective subcutaneous tissue, Aponeurotica, Loose avascular connective tissue, Pericranium). (Reprinted…
Differential diagnosis I: diseases, dysplasias, and syndromes
Shaft fracture Subperiosteal new bone Metaphyseal irregularity Generalized osteopenia Comments Osteogenesis imperfecta + + +/- + First fracture may occur before osteopenia is evident Scurvy – + + + Diet…
