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Abstract
A clinical condition resulting from repeated physical and psychological injuries inflicted on a child by the parents or caregivers.
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- Nonaccidental Trauma in Children
- Battered Child Syndromes
- Child Syndrome, Battered
- Child Syndromes, Battered
- Syndrome, Battered Child
- Syndromes, Battered Child
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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91(75); was see under CHILD ABUSE 1975-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Battered Child Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001497. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001497
- Battered Child Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1914737