Inflicted skeletal injury: a postmortem radiologic-histopathologic study in 31 infants.

The objective of this postmortem study was to use high-detail skeletal surveys, specimen radiography, and histopathologic analysis to determine the number, distribution, and age of inflicted skeletal injuries in infants studied at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center from 1984 to 1994.Thirty-one infants (average age, 3 months) who died with inflicted skeletal injuries were studied with high-detail skeletal surveys and specimen...