Child abuse and metabolic bone disease: are they often confused?

[Child and animal abuse often go hand in hand].

Unexplained Fractures: Child Abuse or Bone Disease? A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Child abuse and neglect (CAN) is a serious problem that has major implications for the welfare of the child involved. Unexplained fractures are of particular concern to the orthopaedic surgeon, who must often consider alternative diagnoses to CAN. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We therefore (1) determined which bone diseases most commonly mimic CAN; (2) what types of osteogenesis imperfecta (O...

Medically unexplained symptoms: how often and why are they missed?

We assessed risk factors affecting the provisional diagnosis of medically unexplained symptoms made by physicians in new patients, in 526 clinical encounters. Comparisons were made between the doctor's initial assessments regarding the nature of symptoms, and the final diagnosis. Physicians were more likely to err on the side of diagnosing the symptoms as medically explained rather than unexpla...

Negligence and Child Abuse

با وجود هرگونه رفتار خشونت آمیز با کودکان یا نوجوانان توسط والدین، محافظین و مراقبین دیگر را سوءرفتار گویند. رفتار نادرست با کودکان همیشه وجود داشته گرچه ممکن است با خواندن مقاله های جدید اینطور تصور شد که سوءرفتار با کودکان پدیده ای جدید و مربوط به قرن بیستم است ولی متاسفانه کودکان در تمام قرون مورد سوءرفتار قرار می گرفتند. در قرن بیستم که به عبارتی قرن کودک لقب گرفته، کشتارهای ساکت زیادی بوقو...

Border Disease Control Checkpoints: Are They Sufficient for Disease Control? The Present Situation in Thailand