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Visceral Injuries

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Thoracic/abdominal injury is a rare but severe complication of child abuse, since it is the second leading cause of death, after traumatic brain injury.

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  1. Département de Radiologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

    Corinne Veyrac, Ikram Taleb-Arrada & Olivier Prodhomme

  2. Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

    Frédéric Gauthier

  3. AP-HP, CHU Bicêtre, Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, 78 rue du Gal Leclerc, 94275, Le Kremlin Bicêtre Cedex, France

    Frédéric Gauthier

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  2. Pediatric Radiology, Department Hôpital de Bicêtre CHU Bicêtre AP-HP, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud University, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

    Catherine Adamsbaum

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Veyrac, C., Gauthier, F., Taleb-Arrada, I., Prodhomme, O. (2018). Visceral Injuries. In: Rey-Salmon, C., Adamsbaum, C. (eds) Child Abuse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65882-7_8

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