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01-12-2015 | Differential Diagnosis
Suction pump injuries mimicking child abuse
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 4/2015
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A five-year-old boy was at home in the care of his father. According to the father’s testimony the boy had allegedly been playing alone in the kitchen when he appeared with injuries to his face. The lesions consisted of two partly overlapping semicircular red–purple bruises on the right cheek. Each bruise measured 25 mm in diameter. The upper margins were well defined with indistinct lower margins over the curve of the cheek (Fig. 1). Both fine and coarse petechial hemorrhages were present.
Fig. 1
The right side of the face of a five-year-old boy showing a collection of lesions. Two partly overlapping semicircular red–purple bruises, each measuring approximately 25 mm in diameter, were present over the cheek. The upper margins were well defined with indistinct lower margins over the curve of the cheek. Both fine and coarse petechial hemorrhages were present. A faint green linear mark at the angle of the right eye had been caused earlier in the day by marker pen. The reddened area anteriorly adjacent to the nasolabial fold represented pre-existing eczema
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