Citation

Fenton LZ, Sirotnak AP, Handler MH. Pediatr. Neurosurg. 2000; 33(6): 318-322.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Denver, CO 80218, USA. fenton.laura@tchden.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Karger Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11182643

Abstract

Massive intracranial hemorrhage, no history of trauma and radiographic findings that were initially interpreted as linear parietal fractures raised the possibility of nonaccidental trauma in 2 infants. Both had severe coagulopathy, 1 due to hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (vitamin K deficiency) and the other due to disseminated herpes simplex virus infection. Both infants died. At autopsy, the parietal bone abnormalities were not fractures, but proved to be an anomalous suture in 1 and a connective tissue fissure in the other.

Language: en