Question 24 · LEK · Cross-cutting topics
Which of the following fractures are not characteristic of battered child syndrome?
- A. oblique physeal fractures of long bones.
- B. peri-epiphyseal fractures.
- C. vertebral body fractures.
- D. rib fractures.
- E. shaft fractures of long bones.
Hint
Typical abuse fractures result from twisting, shaking or squeezing an infant; consider which of the listed injuries is least typical.
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