Box 26.1 Q: “Dr. Smith, do you have an opinion, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, as to the cause of 6-month-old baby Johnson’s condition when he arrived at…
Figure 3.1 Soft tissue injury: early demonstration with scintigraphy. A, Anteroposterial (AP) view of the left femur in an abused infant with a swollen left thigh and a history of…
Figure 21.1 Fatal spinal injury in an abused infant. A, AP postmortem radiograph demonstrates a complex fracture-dislocation at the cervicothoracic junction. B, A pathologic specimen of the spinal column and…
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…
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…
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)…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Chapter 25 Child abuse and the law I: general issues for the radiologist Sandeep K. Narang Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse, third edition, ed. Paul K. Kleinman. Published…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Chapter 15 Postmortem skeletal imaging Paul K. Kleinman Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse, third edition, ed. Paul K. Kleinman. Published by Cambridge University Press. © Paul K. Kleinman…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> Chapter 24 Psychosocial considerations Alice W. Newton and Amy C. Tishelman Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse, third edition, ed. Paul K. Kleinman. Published by Cambridge University Press. ©…
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…
