Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children /
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Imprint: | London : Mac Keith Press ; Distributed by Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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Description: | xiii, 512 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Clinics in developmental medicine ; no. 162 |
Subject: | Infants -- Wounds and injuries. Head -- Wounds and injuries. Head -- Wounds and injuries. Infants -- Wounds and injuries. Shaken baby syndrome. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5841951 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Epidemiology
- 2. Mechanisms and clinical presentation
- 3. Haemorrhagic retinopathy of shaken injury: clinical and pathological aspects
- 4. Neuroimaging in acute and subacute non-accidental head injury: ultrasound and CT
- 5. Initial and sequential MRI in non-accidental injury
- 6. Skeletal injuries in non-accidental injury
- 7. Secondary brain insults
- 8. Early post-traumatic seizures
- 9. Mechanism and management of subdural haemorrhage
- 10. Neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological outcome
- 11. Neuropathology of non-accidental head injury
- 12. Child protection and prevention
- 13. Conclusions
- Glossary of terms
- Index