Diagnosis of Non-accidental Injury : Illustrated Clinical Cases

Containing more than 100 challenging clinical cases and illustrated with color clinical images, this book covers a wide range of problems including the accurate diagnosis of non-accidental injury to children presenting with bruises, burns, fractures, anogenital injuries, head injuries, abdominal injuries or suspected cases of neglect. Sensitively handled, the cases help practitioners to learn the difference between accidental and non-accidental injury and other findings. The book is an invaluable text for all those in the emergency department, forensic medical specialists, paediatricians, social workers, law enforcement agencies and all those needing to learn to identify cases of non-accidental injury when working with children.

Recognition and diagnosis of child abuse and neglect creates an important foundation for the protection of children. Physicians and other healthcare providers have a fundamental role in this process, and need to be confident that they can identify correctly the signs and symptoms that provide clues to non-accidental injuries resulting from child maltreatment.

is an invaluable tool to aid prompt and appropriate diagnosis, presenting various types of findings and challenging the reader with both common and not-so-common manifestations that may result from – or be confused with – child abuse and neglect.

The book describes various clinical scenarios through a brief clinical history accompanied by high-quality clinical images. Questions focus on the important concepts to be learned from each case. The answers are revealed after a turn of the page, sometimes with additional images to explain critical aspects, and feature a diagnosis, the ‘ruling out’ of abuse or neglect, further diagnostic options where relevant, and helpful treatments.