Fatal child abuse-maltreatment syndrome: A retrospective study in Ontario, Canada, 1990–1995

Child death due to repeated episodes of physical assault or neglect has been termed the child abuse-maltreatment syndrome (CAMS). We characterized the injuries in a series of fatally abused or maltreated child to delineate objective diagnostic criteria for the CAMS for use by clinicians and patholog...

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Published in:Forensic science international 2002-04, Vol.126 (2), p.101-104
Main Authors: Pollanen, Michael S, Smith, Charles R, Chiasson, David A, Cairns, James T, Young, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Autopsies
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child Abuse - mortality
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Craniocerebral Trauma - mortality
Criteria
Fatalities
Female
Forensic Medicine
Forensic pathology
Fractures
Head injuries
Head injury
Hemorrhage
Homicide
Humans
Infant
Infections
Injuries
Long bone
Male
Malnutrition
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Neglect
Ontario
Primary care
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Retrospective Studies
Sex crimes
Sexual assault
Shaken baby syndrome
Skin injuries
Soft tissues
Trauma
Traumatic brain injury
Trends
Victimology
Viral infections
Wound healing
Wounds, Nonpenetrating - mortality
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Summary:Child death due to repeated episodes of physical assault or neglect has been termed the child abuse-maltreatment syndrome (CAMS). We characterized the injuries in a series of fatally abused or maltreated child to delineate objective diagnostic criteria for the CAMS for use by clinicians and pathologists. All deaths (age
ISSN:0379-0738
1872-6283
DOI:10.1016/S0379-0738(02)00008-7