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| Year : 2018 | Volume
: 23
| Issue : 3 | Page : 171-173 |
Needle insertion in a child: A rare form of child abuse
Archika Gupta, Om Prakash Purbey, Kanoujia Sunil, Anand Pandey, Shiv Narain Kureel
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Archika Gupta
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow - 226003, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_226_17
Needle insertion is a rare form of child abuse that, though prevalent in the society as an attempted infanticide/homicide, remains undiagnosed and underreported. One should have strong suspicion for occurrence of child abuse in a child with history of needle injury. Here, we report an unusual case of 3-month-old boy with history of hypodermic needle extrusion from multiple sites of body and suspicion of possible child abuse.
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