Paediatric implications of the battered baby syndrome.

Abuse or suspected abuse 41 Failure to thrive 37 seriously deprived. Radiologists and forensic pathologists have come to be very sophisticated in making this diagnosis, and our radiologists have Definition found that roughly 25% of all fractures seen in the The battered child syndrome must be thought of first two years of life are due to the battered child as only the extreme form of a whole spectrum of--syndrome. In our casualty department, 10 to 15% _____________________________ of all trauma seen in children under 3 years of life