228 pages, 164 images, 28 contributors This complete overview of abusive head trauma includes the many different kinds of injuries that may result from abusive head trauma, including extracranial injuries and scalp trauma, intracranial injuries with and without associated bleeding, and fractures. This pocket guide is supplemented with more than 150 radiologic images, offering a perfect point of reference for identifying the various kinds of injuries one may face in investigating abusive head trauma. This atlas also provides readers with concrete analyses of a variety of traumatic head injuries in children. The comprehensive nature of Pediatric Head Trauma Pocket Atlas: Traumatic Injuries makes it an ideal resource for medical, social work, and law enforcement professionals in need of a quick, comprehensive field reference on abusive head trauma.

Lori Frasier is the medical director of Medical Assessment at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Introduction Biomechanics of AHT Outcomes of AHT Section I. Extracranial Injuries Chapter 1. Laceration Chapter 2. Subgaleal Hemorrhages Section II. Intracranial Injuries With Associated Bleeding Chapter 3. Epidural Hematoma Chapter 4. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Chapter 5. Acute Subdural Hemorrhage Chapter 6. Chronic Subdural Hematoma Chapter 7. Subdural Hygroma Section III. Intracranial Injuries Without Bleeding Chapter 8. Cerebral Edema Chapter 9. Hypoxic-Ischemic Injuries Chapter 10. Diffuse Axonal Injury Chapter 11. Brain Contusion Chapter 12. Leptomeningeal Cyst, Growing Skull Fracture, Posttraumatic Cephalocele Chapter 13. Posttraumatic Hydrocephalus Chapter 14. Neck and Spinal Injuries Section IV. Fractures Chapter 15. Fractures of the Cranial Vault: General Principles Chapter 16. Depressed Skull Fractures Chapter 17. Basilar Skull Fractures Chapter 18. Ping-pong Skull Fractures Chapter 19. Rib Fractures Chapter 20. Long Bone Fractures