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Battered Child Syndrome; a Case Study

One of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. This ominous phenomenon, which can be presented physically, psychologically, sexually, and emotionally has grown significantly in recent years. Many children are not diagnosed in the early stages of evaluation. Battere...

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Autores principales: Pezeshki, Arastoo, Rahmani, Farzad, Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh, Fekri, Sanaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26495388
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author Pezeshki, Arastoo
Rahmani, Farzad
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description One of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. This ominous phenomenon, which can be presented physically, psychologically, sexually, and emotionally has grown significantly in recent years. Many children are not diagnosed in the early stages of evaluation. Battered Child Syndrome is used to describe the clinical condition of the child serious physical abuse by parents or caregivers. Medical staff should always keep the syndrome in their mind for those brought to the emergency department with trauma. In this report, we described a patient complained of dysphagia following a falling from a height and multiple epidural hematomas and final diagnosis of battered child syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-46145962015-10-22 Battered Child Syndrome; a Case Study Pezeshki, Arastoo Rahmani, Farzad Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh Fekri, Sanaz Emerg (Tehran) Case Report One of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. This ominous phenomenon, which can be presented physically, psychologically, sexually, and emotionally has grown significantly in recent years. Many children are not diagnosed in the early stages of evaluation. Battered Child Syndrome is used to describe the clinical condition of the child serious physical abuse by parents or caregivers. Medical staff should always keep the syndrome in their mind for those brought to the emergency department with trauma. In this report, we described a patient complained of dysphagia following a falling from a height and multiple epidural hematomas and final diagnosis of battered child syndrome. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4614596/ /pubmed/26495388 Text en © 2015 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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