Shaking and other non-accidental head injuries in children /

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Imprint:London : Mac Keith Press ; Distributed by Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Minns, R. A. (Robert Anthony)
Brown, J. Keith.
ISBN:1898683352
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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