TY - JOUR T1 - Pathology of nonaccidental brain injury JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 473 LP - 473 DO - 10.1136/adc.85.6.473 VL - 85 IS - 6 AU - ARCHIVIST Y1 - 2001/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/85/6/473.abstract N2 - It is commonly believed that severely shaken babies have diffuse axonal injury to the brain and that the forces needed to produce such injury are greater than can be explained by shaking alone and imply that the head has also struck a solid surface. Now a detailed neuropathological study (Jennian F Geddes and colleagues.Brain2001;124:1290–8 and 1299–306; see also editorial, ibid 1261–2) has suggested that diffuse axonal injury is, in fact, uncommon in these infants and … ER -