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Acute paediatrics
Investigating subdural haemorrhage in infants
Abstract
When an infant or young child presents with subdural haemorrhage, the diagnostic priority is to exclude physical child abuse. A team approach should be adopted for the clinical child protection investigation. The diagnostic process is inevitably one of detective work; appropriate radiological, ophthalmological, haematological, biochemical, and postmortem investigations are discussed.
- subdural haemorrhage
- abuse
- child protection
- CT, computed tomography
- MRI, magnetic resonance imaging
- SDH, subdural haemorrhage