Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Child Abuse Committee response regarding Miller, Stolfi and Ayoub's flawed theories about child abuse and metabolic bone disease

Stephen D Brown; Joelle A Moreno; Natasha Shur; Sabah Servaes

doi:10.1515/jpem-2019-0544

Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Child Abuse Committee response regarding Miller, Stolfi and Ayoub's flawed theories about child abuse and metabolic bone disease

J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Apr 28;33(4):547-548. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2019-0544.

Authors

Stephen D Brown¹, Joelle A Moreno², Natasha Shur³, Sabah Servaes⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
² Florida International University College of Law, Miami, FL, USA.
³ Rare Disease Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Department of Clinical Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 32084006
DOI: 10.1515/jpem-2019-0544

No abstract available

Keywords: burden of proof; child abuse; evidence of abuse; expert witness; fractures in infancy; metabolic bone disease; non-accidental trauma; vitamin D deficiency.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Bone Diseases, Metabolic / diagnosis*
Bone Diseases, Metabolic / diagnostic imaging
Bone Diseases, Metabolic / epidemiology
Child
Child Abuse / diagnosis*
Child Abuse / statistics & numerical data
Diagnosis, Differential
Hospitals, Pediatric / standards*
Humans
Prognosis
Radiography / methods*
Societies, Medical