Erschienen in:
01.01.2020 | Commentary
Understanding the importance of spinal injury in abusive head trauma (AHT)
verfasst von:
Arabinda K. Choudhary
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
|
Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
A growing body of evidence links abusive head trauma (AHT) to patterns of direct spinal injury such as injury to the vertebral column, ligaments and soft tissues, and to indirect evidence of injury such as spinal subdural hemorrhage in the absence of obvious spinal injury [
1‐
3]. The article by Dr. Rabbitt et al. [
4] in the current issue of
Pediatric Radiology reviews the topic comprehensively and adds to the literature on abusive head trauma. …