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Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma
Pediatric abusive head trauma – once commonly known as the shaken baby syndrome – is a form of child abuse that results in traumatic brain injury. The peak incidence of pediatric abusive head trauma appears to be in children between the ages of 2 to 4 months; the exact incidence of this injury is not known. Pediatric abusive head trauma often results in severe and permanent neurological damage,...
متن کاملBase deficit correlates with mortality in pediatric abusive head trauma.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Children suffering from abusive head trauma (AHT) have worse outcomes compared to non-AHT, but the reasons for this are unclear. We hypothesized that delayed medical care associated with AHT causes prolonged pre-hospital hypotension and hypoxia as measured by admission base deficit (BD), and that this would correlate with outcome. METHODS We performed a 10-year retrospectiv...
متن کاملConfessed abusive blunt head trauma.
It is generally accepted that terms referring to specific craniocerebral injury mechanisms must be replaced by the more general term abusive head trauma (AHT). Although blunt impact trauma remains an essential part of AHT, it has received far less attention in the literature than shaken-impact injuries. The current article presents 19 confessed cases of a series of 47 highly suspected AHT cases...
متن کاملAbusive head trauma in infants and children.
Shaken baby syndrome is a term often used by physicians and the public to describe abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. Although the term is well known and has been used for a number of decades, advances in the understanding of the mechanisms and clinical spectrum of injury associated with abusive head trauma compel us to modify our terminology to keep pace with our unde...
متن کاملExtramedullary Hematopoiesis in Abusive Head Trauma
Extensive unilateral extramedullary hematopoiesis of the choroid was observed in an otherwise clear cut case of abusive head trauma with bilateral retinal hemorrhage, optic nerve sheath hemorrhage and peripapillary intrascleral hemorrhage. Review of 60 archival cases of suspected abusive head trauma identified two more examples of extramedullary hematopoiesis in abusive head trauma that initial...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1933-0707,1933-0715
DOI: 10.3171/2017.4.peds16650