Citation

Akbarnia B, Torg JS, Kirkpatrick J, Sussman S. J. Bone Joint Surg. Am. 1974; 56(6): 1159-1166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

4436352

Abstract

Between 1965 and 1972, 231 patients were admitted to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia with the battered-child syndrome. The case records and reontgenograms of 217 patients were reviewed. About one-third of the patients repuired orthopaedic treatment. The purpose of this paper is to alert the orthopaedist to the existence and prevalence of the battered-child syndrome, to describe both the non-orthopaedic and the orthopaedic manifestations of this problem, and to delineate the orthopaedist's responsibility to the battered child and the child's family.

Language: en