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Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective
Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the most common and serious form of child abuse and a leading cause of traumatic death in infants and young children. The biomechanics of head injuries include violent shaking, blunt impact, or a combination of both. Neuroimaging plays an important role in recognizing an...
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Korean Neurosurgical Society
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35483021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2021.0297 |
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author | Cheon, Jung-Eun Kim, Ji Hye |
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description | Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the most common and serious form of child abuse and a leading cause of traumatic death in infants and young children. The biomechanics of head injuries include violent shaking, blunt impact, or a combination of both. Neuroimaging plays an important role in recognizing and distinguishing abusive injuries from lesions from accidental trauma or other causes, because clinical presentation and medical history are often nonspecific and ambiguous in this age group. Understanding common imaging features of AHT can increase recognition with high specificity for AHT. In this review, we discuss the biomechanics of AHT, imaging features of AHT, and other conditions that mimic AHT. |
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spelling | pubmed-90821302022-05-17 Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective Cheon, Jung-Eun Kim, Ji Hye J Korean Neurosurg Soc Review Article Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the most common and serious form of child abuse and a leading cause of traumatic death in infants and young children. The biomechanics of head injuries include violent shaking, blunt impact, or a combination of both. Neuroimaging plays an important role in recognizing and distinguishing abusive injuries from lesions from accidental trauma or other causes, because clinical presentation and medical history are often nonspecific and ambiguous in this age group. Understanding common imaging features of AHT can increase recognition with high specificity for AHT. In this review, we discuss the biomechanics of AHT, imaging features of AHT, and other conditions that mimic AHT. Korean Neurosurgical Society 2022-05 2022-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9082130/ /pubmed/35483021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2021.0297 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Korean Neurosurgical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Cheon, Jung-Eun Kim, Ji Hye Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title | Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title_full | Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title_fullStr | Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title_short | Imaging of Abusive Head Trauma : A Radiologists’ Perspective |
title_sort | imaging of abusive head trauma : a radiologists’ perspective |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35483021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2021.0297 |
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