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Sandra M. Brown, MD; Jay C. Bradley, MD

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We examined a 5-month-old girl who came to the emergency department with fever and diarrhea. She was found to have a comminuted right femur fracture and scattered bruises, including one on the labia majora and one over the left parietal skull. Computed tomography of the brain showed a focal hyperdensity in the left frontal cortex possibly representing a contusion; no intracranial hemorrhage was identified. The mother confessed to shaking the infant.

The right fundus showed a posterior vitreous detachment with a prominent Weiss ring; there was a slight amount of red blood coating the back of the posterior vitreous face, as well as a few optic disc margin hemorrhages. The left fundus showed a slightly greater amount of hemorrhage on the optic disc and detached posterior vitreous face without an obvious Weiss ring. There were no other preretinal or intraretinal hemorrhages on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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