Diagnosis of child abuse

ABSTRACT

The increase of frequency for child abuse had pushed the authors to make the portrait of this kind of children. Battered children are usually less than 3 years and they may be boys as well as girls. They usually live in a recomposed family, and they are usually battered by their mother The clinical examination may found skin, neurologic, thoraco-abdominal and osseous injuries, I and all these lesions are often multiple and of different ages. In battered children, all theses injuries have some specificities