Child Abuse and Neglect - A Diagnostic Guide
For physicians, surgeons, pathologists, dentists, nurses and social workers
Vincent J. Palusci, MD, MS
New York University School of Medicine and Frances L. Loeb Center for Child Protection and Development, New York, USA
Howard Fischer, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan, USA
Contributing Authors:
Russell A Faust, Howard Fischer, Coleen Fitzpatrick, Earl R. Hartwig, Aparna Joshi, Scott Langenburg, Lisa Markman, Dena Nazar, Vincent Palusci, John D. Roarty, Carl J. Schmidt, Philip V. Scribano, Thomas J. Slovis, Lynn C. Smitherman, Mary E. Smyth, Pamela Wallace-Hammel
Written by and for professionals in disciplines ranging from general and child abuse paediatrics, to surgery, emergency medicine, pathology, dentistry, nursing and social work, the book reflects current, and increasing, knowledge in this field. It contains high-quality representative photographs of diagnostic possibilities. The authors stress throughout the importance of including a broad range of possibilities in their differential diagnoses so that a non-inflicted condition is not labelled child abuse, and an inflicted injury cannot be mistaken for a more innocent condition.
Contents
Introduction
- Bruises
- Abusive burns
- Cutaneous conditions mimicking child abuse
- Imaging child abuse
- Ocular trauma
- Otolaryngologic manifestations of abuse and neglect
- Recognition of child abuse and neglect by dentists, health and child care professionals and law enforcement
- Abusive abdominal trauma
- Anogenital findings and child sexual abuse
- Child maltreatment fatalities
- Failure to thrive
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy
