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Chapter 19 - Abusive head trauma: parenchymal injury

from Section II - Abusive head and spinal trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2015

By
P. Ellen Grant
Edited by
Paul K. Kleinman
P. Ellen Grant
Affiliation:
Director, Center on Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Paul K. Kleinman
Affiliation:
Children's Hospital Boston
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Overview

The most feared consequence of child abuse is brain injury. Abusive head trauma (AHT) can result in significant brain injuries that can cause death or lifelong handicap of a child, with the full consequence not truly evident until school age or later. AHT is the most common cause of traumatic death for infants with as many as one in four victims of AHT/shaken baby syndrome (SBS) dying (1). Almost all suffer serious health consequences such as sensory impairments as well as cognitive, learning, and behavioral disabilities (2).

These parenchymal brain injuries can be quite subtle initially, but the appropriate history or the presence of intracranial hemorrhage or extra-axial collections should trigger a search for subtle changes that indicate evolving brain injury. Although some parenchymal brain injuries observed in AHT are similar to those observed in accidental trauma, there are injury patterns that are more common in documented cases of abuse. The uniqueness of these injury patterns is likely due to a combination of specific mechanical forces and the vulnerability of the immature brain, particularly in infancy. Infants are more susceptible to direct mechanical brain injury from abusive shaking owing to poor neck control, larger head size, and softer brain owing to incomplete myelination. Also with shaking, indirect injuries from associated cardiac and/or respiratory compromise may occur. To further complicate matters, physiologic cascades cause the imaging appearance of abusive brain injury to evolve over time. To better understand the evolution of brain injury, we begin with an overview on cell death processes in the immature brain. Next we divide parenchymal injuries into those caused by direct mechanical forces (primary injuries) and those associated with, but not directly due to mechanical forces (secondary injuries). Also included is a discussion on mechanisms of injury for different imaging patterns of brain injury, recognizing that in some cases mechanisms are unproven or controversial. Finally, we remind the reader that it is common for severe brain injury to be present in the absence of external evidence of injury (3, 4). Therefore, brain imaging should be performed if there is a high clinical suspicion or if neurologic signs and symptoms are present, even if there are no overt signs of abuse. The recommended neuroimaging protocol is provided in Chapter 20.

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Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse , pp. 453 - 486
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Print publication year: 2015

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  • Abusive head trauma: parenchymal injury
    • By P. Ellen Grant, Director, Center on Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Edited by Paul K. Kleinman
  • Book: Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse
  • Online publication: 05 September 2015
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    • By P. Ellen Grant, Director, Center on Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Edited by Paul K. Kleinman
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  • Edited by Paul K. Kleinman
  • Book: Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse
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