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  1. Department of Radiology, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803, USA

    Arabinda Kumar Choudhary

  2. Child Abuse Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Sandeep K. Narang

  3. Florida International University College of Law, Miami, FL, USA

    Joëlle Anne Moreno

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Cindy W. Christian

  5. Department of Radiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Sabah Servaes

  6. New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Vincent J. Palusci

  7. Department of Medical Imaging, Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Gary L. Hedlund

  8. Department of Radiology, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Gary L. Hedlund

  9. University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Gary L. Hedlund

  10. Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, Hershey, PA, USA

    Mark S. Dias

  11. Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Marvin D. Nelson

  12. Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    V. Michelle Silvera

  13. Pediatric Neuroradiology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Scottish Rite Campus, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Susan Palasis

  14. Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Susan Palasis

  15. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

    Maria Raissaki

  16. Neuroradiology Unit, Istituto Giannina Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    Andrea Rossi

  17. Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging, Academic Unit of Child Health, Sheffield, UK

    Amaka C. Offiah

  18. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK

    Amaka C. Offiah

  19. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Amaka C. Offiah

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Drs. Narang, Palusci, Hedlund and Offiah have been paid as expert consultants in cases of suspected abusive head trauma. Drs. Choudhary, Christian, Servaes, Nelson, Palasis and Rossi provide medical-legal expert work in child abuse cases.

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Choudhary, A.K., Narang, S.K., Moreno, J.A. et al. A consensus response on the complete picture: reply to Lynøe and Eriksson. Pediatr Radiol 49, 424–428 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-019-04341-4

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