@article{ref1,
title="Normal spinous process metaphyseal-equivalent lucency simulating infant abuse fractures",
journal="Skeletal Radiology",
year="2015",
author="Oestreich, Alan E. and Anton, Christopher G.",
volume="44",
number="10",
pages="1519-1522",
abstract="We report a normal radiographic finding that may be mistaken for child abuse trauma in the posterior thoracolumbar spinous processes of young infants after the first week of life. A lucency paralleling the posterior margin of the ossified spinous process is equivalent to the metaphyseal lucent bands seen normally after about a week of the child's age at the ends of long tubular bones. A similar lucency is seen just under the growth plate of vertebral bodies at that early age, giving the bone-in-bone appearance. Our index case was imaged at 3 weeks and then at 5 weeks of age, with no evidence of periosteal reaction or endosteal callus on that follow-up study, confirming the lack of fractures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0364-2348",
doi="10.1007/s00256-015-2184-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00256-015-2184-7"
}