Head injury in child abuse: evaluation with MR imaging.
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 173 (3) , 653-657
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.173.3.2813768
Abstract
To evaluate the usefulness of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the diagnosis of head injury in child abuse, the authors compared the findings at head MR imaging and computed tomography (CT) in 19 abused children. Subdural hematomas (15 cases), cortical contusions (six cases), and shearing injuries (five cases) were demonstrated to particular advantage with MR imaging. CT remained superior in the detection of subarachnoid hemorrhage. MR imaging appears to be valuable in the assessment of patients with suspected intracranial injury due to child abuse.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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