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Medline search strategy used for the most recent neurological injuries search:

1. child/

2. (child: or infant: or toddler: or baby or babies).af.

3. 1 or 2

4. (non-accidental injur: or nonaccidental injur:).af.

5. (non-accidental trauma or nonaccidental trauma).af.

6. (non-accidental: and injur:).af.

7. soft tissue injur:.af.

8. physical abuse.af.

9. (inflicted brain injur: or inflicted cerebral injur:).af.

10. (inflicted traumatic head injur: or inflicted traumatic brain injur:).af.

11. (or/4-10) and 3

12. (child abuse or child maltreatment or child protection).af.

13. (battered child or shaken baby or battered baby).af.

14. (battered infant or shaken infant).af.

15. Shak: Baby Syndrome.af.

16. shak: impact syndrome.af.

17. or/12-16

18. 11 or 17

19. abusive head trauma.af.

20. bleeding into brain.af.

21. blow to the head.af.

22. Brain Injuries/ or brain damage.af.

23. (brain haemorrhage: or brain hemorrhage:).af.

24. (brain swelling or cerebral edema).af.

25. cerebral injur:.af.

26. cervical spine injur:.af.

27. cervical spine neuropathology.af.

28. cranial injur:.af.

29. craniocerebral trauma.af.

30. diffuse axonal injur:.af.

31. extracranial CNS injur:.af.

32. extracranial Central Nervous System injur:.af.

33. central nervous system injur:.af.

34. (extradural haematoma or hematoma).af.

35. extradural haemorrhage.af.

36. haemorrhagic retinopathy.af.

37. (head inur: or head trauma).af.

38. impact injur:.af.

39. intracerebral bleeding.af.

40. (intracerebral haemorrhage or intracerebral hemorrhage).af.

41. (intracranial haemorrhage or intracranial hemorrhage).af.

42. intracranial injur:.af.

43. (intraventricular hematoma or intraventricular haematoma).af.

44. (multiple skull fractur: or eggshell fractur:).af.

45. (neurological injur: adj3 child abuse).af.

46. neuropathology.af.

47. non-accidental head injur:.af.

48. (parenchymal contusion or laceration).af.

49. (retinal hemorrhage or retinal haemorrhage).af.

50. skull fracture:.af.

51. (spinal cord injury adj3 radiologic abnormality).af.

52. spinal cord injur:.af.

53. (subdural haematoma or hemotoma).af.

54. (subarachnoid hematoma or subarachnoid haematoma).af.

55. (subdural haemorrhage or subdural hemorrhage).af.

56. (ventricular haemorrhage or ventricular hemorrhage).af.

57. whiplash impact syndrome.af.

58. whiplash injur:.af.

59. whiplash shaken infant.af.

60. infarction.af.

61. (hypoxic-ischemic injur: or hypoxic-ischaemic injur:).af.

62. (contusion: or contusional tear).af.

63. Hematoma/ or (hematoma or haematoma).af.

64. laceration:.af.

65. shearing injur:.af.

66. traumatic effusion:.af.

67. subdural hygroma.af.

68. hygroma.af.

69. interhemispheric.af.

70. parafalcine.af.

71. (brain or brainstem).af.

72. cerebral.af.

73. intraparenchymal.af.

74. sciwora.mp.

75. spinal cord injury without radiologic abnormality.af.

76. cervical lumbar.af.

77. thoracic lumbar sacral.af.

78. leptomeningeal cyst.af.

79. growing skull fracture.af.

80. hydrocephalus.af.

81. laminar necrosis.af.

82. encephalomalacia.af.

83. cerebral atrophy.af.

84. craniocervical.af.

85. encephalopathy.af.

86. (intraparenchymal hemorrhag: or intraparenchymal haemorrhag:).af.

87. (spinal cord injury adj3 physical abuse).af.

88. or/19-87

89. Tomography, X-Ray Computed/ or Computed tomography.af.

90. (CT or CAT scan:).af.

91. diagnostic imaging.af.

92. Magnetic Resonance Imaging/ or (magnetic resonance imaging or MRI).af.

93. neuroradiology.af.

94. neuroimaging.af.

95. plain films.af.

96. radiological imaging.af.

97. X-rays.af.

98. neurologic: imaging.af.

99. diffusion weighted imaging.af.

100. neurologic examination.af.

101. ultrasound scan:.af.

102. or/89-101

103. 18 and 88

104. 102 and 103

 

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