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A five-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of uncontrollable seizures. Her father had shaken her vigorously, allegedly in an attempt to rescue her from a choking spell. A computed tomographic scan of her head revealed a right frontal subdural hematoma, left frontal and temporal subdural hematomas, an interhemispheric hemorrhage, a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and a right lambdoid diastasis. On ophthalmologic examination, the child appeared to fixate on but not to follow objects. The pupils were 5 mm in diameter and slowly reactive. There was no afferent pupillary defect. The results of extraocular motility and slit-lamp examinations were normal. The . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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