Incidence of Impact Trauma With Cranial Injuries Ascribed to Shaking

Citation:

Alexander R, Sato Y, Smith W, Bennett T: Incidence of impact trauma with cranial injuries ascribed to shaking. AJDC 144:724-6, June 1990.

Abstract

Notes:

• The findings indicate that shaking alone is sufficient to cause severe or fatal intracranial injury.
• A mother of one of the patients who died admitted to shaking her child 20 days prior to hospitalization.