@article{b66a5a2e2efe40eaa6b3d1742d632b23,
title = "European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) Child Abuse Taskforce Committee: A response to Miller et al.",
keywords = "child abuse, expert witness, fractures in infancy, inflicted injury, metabolic bone disease",
author = "Michael Paddock and Catherine Adamsbaum and Ignasi Barber and Maria Raissaki and \{Van Rijn\}, Rick and Offiah, \{Amaka C.\}",
note = "Funding Information: Unexplained fractures in infants and young children, including classic metaphyseal lesions (CMLs) and posterior rib fractures, carry a high specificity for physical abuse. Several decades of well-established research exists, endorsed by specialist paediatric radiology organisations including the ESPR and the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), and supported by recently published systematic reviews (], [). In contrast, in their article, Miller et al. speculate that unexplained fractures in infants and young children, including CMLs and posterior rib fractures, are the result of undiagnosed “metabolic bone disease of infancy” (MBDI). To support their outlier opinion, the authors have combined a multitude of maternal and infant risk factors to invent this new diagnostic entity, which (they say) has the radiographic signs of healing rickets. This is based solely on their own speculation. ",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1515/jpem-2020-0184",
language = "English",
volume = "33",
pages = "941--944",
journal = "Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism",
issn = "0334-018X",
publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH",
number = "7",
}