Paediatric Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Anthony Busuttil, Jean Keeling

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780340731574
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040054475
• Topic: Médecine
• Subtopic: Théorie, pratique et référence de la médecine

Child abuse and suspicious child deaths are very complicated matters for clinicians, pathologists, law enforcement officials and legal professionals to investigate. Meanwhile, the evidence base for forensic pathology, especially in paediatrics, is steadily growing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations used
• 1 Clinical assessment in suspected child abuse
• 2 Investigation of suspected sexual abuse
• 3 Radiology of child abuse
• 4 Haematological abnormalities that can simulate abuse
• 5 Biochemical investigations on post-mortem specimens
• 6 Ocular involvement in non-accidental injury
• 7 The death scene following the sudden death of a child
• 8 Post-mortem examination in babies and children
• 9 Pathology of neurological abnormality in early life
• 10 Fetal and perinatal death
• 11 Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or Something Else?
• 12 Sudden natural death in infants and children
• 13 Recent advances in paediatric toxicology
• 14 Head and neck injuries
• 15 Heat-induced injury or death
• 16 Asphyxial deaths in children
• 17 Accidental injuries in children
• 18 Drowning and near drowning
• 19 Sudden death of children in hospital
• 20 Road traffic accidents in children
• 21 Forensic DNA profiling in cases involving children
• 22 The dentist’s role in child abuse and neglect
• 23 Paediatric dental identification
• 24 The expert witness and expert testimony
• Appendix A: Child protection examination forms
• Appendix B: Tables of standard measurements
• Index