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Eczema mimicking child abuse: a case of mistaken identity
T Ryan Heider1, Diane Priolo, C Scott Hultman
1North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7210, USA.
The Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation
|September 28, 2002
Abstract:
Many skin conditions can mimic child abuse by burning. Multidisciplinary evaluation of suspicious burns helps prevent both the underreporting and the misdiagnosis of child abuse by burning. We report a case of pediatric eczema mimicking an abusive burn.