A study from Penn State-Hershey shows that victims of child abuse are more likely to suffer from bleeding of the spine than children who are injured accidentally, Health Imaging reports.
According to the researchers, abusive head trauma is the leading cause of significant traumatic brain injury in infants, with a 20 to 38 percent mortality rate and significant neurological and developmental impairment in 30 to 78 percent of survivors, according to Arabinda Kumar Choudhary, MD, of the department of radiology at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa.
The radiologic features of abusive head trauma include bleeding within the skull and brain injury. Spinal injuries like spinal subdural hemorrhage are another feature of trauma that may be overlooked clinically in non-fatal cases because of coexistent brain injury and traumatic coma.
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