Shaken Baby Syndrome
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ocular manifestations and prognosis of shaken baby syndrome in two Japanese children's hospitals.

6 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: To distinguish the profiles of patients and ophthalmologic features and to describe the prognosis of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) in Japan. METHODS: Charts of child abuse cases involving retinal hemorrhage at Kanagawa Children's Medical ... Read more...

Nonaccidental head injury in children. Historical vignette.

30 May 2009 Our current understanding of nonaccidental head injury in children is the result of decades of effort and the tireless work of numerous physicians. In 1860 Auguste Ambroise Tardieu, a French forensics expert, recognized important patterns of injury ... Read more...

Non-accidental head injury in New Zealand: the outcome of referral to statutory authorities.

27 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: To describe the outcome of referral to the statutory authorities for infants under 2 years with non-accidental head injury (NAHI), and to establish whether the authorities held sufficient information to develop a risk profile for these ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Shaken Baby Syndrome'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Retinal pigment epithelial tear in shaken baby syndrome. 30 Oct 2009
• Ocular manifestations and prognosis of shaken baby syndrome in two Japanese children's hospitals. 6 Sep 2009
• Preventing shaken baby syndrome: a multidisciplinary response to six tragedies. 30 Jul 2009
• What can we learn from computational model studies of the eye? 30 Jul 2009
• Challenging an assumption. A pathologist questions shaken baby syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• Non-accidental brain injury: mechanisms and imponderables. 30 Jul 2009
• Early warning signs. Jul 2009
• 'Spontaneous' auricular haematoma: a rare differential diagnosis of NAI. 30 May 2009
• Nonaccidental head injury in children. Historical vignette. 30 May 2009
• Retinal morphologic features in shaken baby syndrome evaluated by optical coherence tomography. 30 May 2009
• Non-accidental head injury in New Zealand: the outcome of referral to statutory authorities. 27 May 2009
• Finite element model of ocular injury in abusive head trauma. 3 May 2009
• Fragile brain, handle with care. 29 Apr 2009
• Abusive head trauma in infants and children. 29 Apr 2009
• Long-term outcome of the shaken baby syndrome and medicolegal consequences: a case report. 13 Apr 2009
• Imaging of nonaccidental head injury. 30 Mar 2009
• Including fathers in preventing non-accidental head injury. 30 Mar 2009
• Fatal head injury in children younger than 2 years in New York City and an overview of the shaken baby syndrome. 30 Mar 2009
• Preventing head trauma from abuse in infants. 29 Mar 2009
• Shaken baby syndrome: a common variant of non-accidental head injury in infants. 25 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Shaken Baby Syndrome'

Definition: Brain injuries resulted from vigorous shaking of an infant or young child held by the chest, shoulders, or extremities causing extreme rotational cranial acceleration. It is characterized by the intracranial and intraocular hemorrhages with no evident external trauma. Serious cases may result in death.

Descriptor UI: D038642

Alternative terms: Shaken Baby Syndrome;

Related Mesh Headings: Child Abuse;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics;

Tree Number: C10.900.300.087.850; C21.866.260.118.825; C21.866.915.300.200.825;

History Note: 2003