Non-accidental head injury, be it shaking, impact(s) or a combination of the two, is characterised by subdural and/or subarachnoid haemorrhages with retinal haemorrhages, but minimal or absent external cranio-facial trauma. The classical assault scenario depicts the infant being gripped around the head, face, chest and abdomen and shaken or being gripped by a limb and swung. This gripping might...

DETECTING DEFECTS IN CHERRIES USING MACHINE VISION By Patchrawat Uthaisombut This thesis describes machine vision procedures which are able to classify defective cherries from non-defective cherries. Defects can be divided into bruises, dry cracks, and wet cracks. Bandpass lters that enhance the intensity contrast between bruised and unbruised cherries are determined. An optimum combination of ...

Cutaneous bruises are a common symptom and a sign of injury and blood coagulation disorders in childhood. A carefully-taken history, coupled with a thorough physical examination, would lead to the diagnosis, or guide the clinician to the necessary laboratory investigations. Most children suffering from non-accidental injury can have their diagnosis established on clinical grounds alone and do n...

A body so light, it floatedacross wind-whipped wavesand did not sink. So full of life,it survived empty forty days,no wheat for nights.A blindingly pure,its hands purified other bodies.This drew the first sunrise,still wept at a friend's last breath.This light was floggedand trapped and displayed.Had life squeezed out throughstripes. Suffered bruises andis still scarred from woundsso I could be...

Incidence of Abusive Cutaneous Injuries Cutaneous injuries include bruises, petechiae, burns, bite marks, lacerations, and abrasions. In 2004 data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System of the US Department of Health and Human Services indicated that physical abuse constituted 17.5% of the total substantiated reports for child maltreatment.' Data from the first Canadian incidence...

gIR The case given below may interest your readers A 'railway loader, healthy young man, aged about 25, slipped his foot while unloading a truck containing rails, on the 22nd May last. The heavy rail he was unloading with the help of others fell on him. striking against the left side of the abdomen and the right thigh. He was picked up unconscious and sent at once to the Civil Hospital, where, ...