Abstract
Abusive head trauma includes inflicted skull, cerebral and vascular injuries resulting from blunt force trauma, shaking, or a combination of these forces. Lesions that arise from abusive head trauma include subdural hemorrhage, epidural hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hygromas, cerebral edema, cerebral ischemia, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral contusion, skull fractures, retinal hemorrhages, and scalp swelling. There is no gold standard diagnostic test for child abuse. The diagnosis relies on clinical and imaging features as well as supporting social and child welfare information. Several imaging tools, including CT, MRI, skull radiography, and ultrasonography are often needed to confirm a suspected diagnosis of child abuse.
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Navarro, T., Abello, A.L. (2016). Child Abuse. In: Hoffmann Nunes, R., Abello, A., Castillo, M. (eds) Critical Findings in Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27987-9_25
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