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Radiological and pathological aspects of the battered child syndrome

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The Maltreatment of Children

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Radiology plays an essential part in the investigation and diagnosis of non-accidental injury in children (battered children). By such an examination a radiologist should be able to state that not only are certain skeletal injuries caused by non-accidental injury, but that such injuries had been caused in a certain way and are of a certain age.

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  1. Royal Ottawa Hospital, Canada

    Selwyn M. Smith (Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Director) (Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Director)

  2. Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Selwyn M. Smith (Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Director) (Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Director)

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Cameron, J.M. (1978). Radiological and pathological aspects of the battered child syndrome. In: Smith, S.M. (eds) The Maltreatment of Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6162-6_3

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