Child Abuse : Medical Diagnosis and Management

by Reece, Robert M.; Ludwig, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780781724449
• ISBN10: 0781724449
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Summary

Tufts Univ., Boston, MA. Provides a guide through the medical, surgical, radiographic, and laboratory terrain of child abuse and neglect. Advises best diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of child abuse, current medical data, and collective knowledge of experts in the field. Previous edition: c1994. Color and halftone illustrations. DNLM: Child Abuse.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xiv
The Biomechanics of Physical Injury	1	(22)
Kent P. Hymel
Betty S. Spivack
Cutaneous Manifestations of Child Abuse	23	(24)
Carole Jenny
Abusive Head Trauma	47	(34)
Randell C. Alexander
Carolyn J. Levitt
Wilbur L. Smith
New Directions in Neuroradiology of Child Abuse	81	(16)
Robert A. Zimmerman
Ocular Manifestations of Child Abuse	97	(12)
Alex V. Levin
Maxillofacial, Neck, and Dental Manifestations of Child Abuse	109	(14)
Cindy W. Christian
Lynn Douglas Mouden
Skeletal Manifestations of Child Abuse	123	(34)
Daniel R. Cooperman
David F. Merten
Visceral Injury Manifestations of Child Abuse	157	(20)
Stephen Ludwig
Conditions Mistaken for Child Physical Abuse	177	(30)
Jan Bays
Medical Findings in Child Sexual Abuse	207	(80)
Martin A. Finkel
Allan R. DeJong
Conditions Mistaken for Child Sexual Abuse	287	(20)
Jan Bays
Failure to Thrive	307	(32)
Deborah A. Frank
Dennis Drotar
John T. Cook
Jennifer S. Bleiker
Dorothy Kasper
Child Neglect	339	(24)
Howard Dubowitz
Maureen M. Black
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy	363	(22)
Donna Andrea Rosenberg
Photodocumentation of the Abused Child	385	(20)
Lawrence R. Ricci
Child Abuse by Poisoning	405	(38)
Jan Bays
Kenneth W. Feldman
Immersion Injury in Child Abuse and Neglect	443	(10)
Kenneth W. Feldman
Unusual Manifestations of Child Abuse	453	(14)
Rebecca R. S. Socolar
Desmond K. Runyan
Pathology of Fatal Abuse	467	(50)
Robert H. Kirschner
Harry Wilson
Fatal Child Abuse and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome	517	(28)
Robert M. Reece
Henry F. Krous
Medicolegal Aspects of Child Abuse	545	(18)
John E. B. Myers
Subject Index	563