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You see the diffuse hemorrhaging over here? compare that to retinal hemorrhages. again, that's shaking, increasing the pressure in the skull space and causing these sensitive blood vessels to bleed. it is not conclusive that someone that has these hemorrhages is abused, but 85% of the time you're going to see this in a shaken baby case. >> there's other things that could explain some of these symptoms, right? >> one of the big things here is to look for other injuries, as well. let me give you one example. when someone has abusive head trauma, in 71% of cases you'll see evidence of prior cases...

Baby, you've got a lot of force being generated by the head because of that size discrepancy. the diagnosis, as jeff i think is alluding to, can be somewhat challenging, although there are a few important things. let me show you a couple of aim js here. this is a cat stan, one of the first tests that's done. you see a sort of specific area of blood here on the brain. that's that white over here. this is abusive head trauma. you see this layering of blood along here and some of the blood into that. it might be hard to see. the point is it looks different on a cat scan. one of the big things tha...