The Role of Skeletal Survey in Identifying Non-Accidental Trauma in Pediatric Trauma Patients

Background: Non-accidental Trauma (NAT) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Children less than 2 years old are at greater risk of NAT than older children. A skeletal survey is a series of X-rays of all the bones in the body, or at least the axial skeleton and the large cortical...

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Main Author: Green, Jonathan
Format: Others
Published: eScholarship@UMMS 2017
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Online Access:https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/902
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1906&context=gsbs_diss