Suspicious scars: physical child abuse vs Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Amal Nishantha Vadysinghe (مؤلف), Chatula Usari Wickramashinghe (مؤلف), Dineshi Nadira Nanayakkara (مؤلف), Chandishni Ishara Kaluarachchi (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: University of São Paulo, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Child abuse is a sensitive topic among many medical practitioners and the diagnosis of this entity requires awareness about conditions which can mimic physical child abuse. Here, the authors present a case of a 13-year-old school non-attendee who was referred due to multiple scars, over areas prone...