Letter to the editor: Unexplained fractures: child abuse or bone disease: a systematic review.

摘要

In the March 2011 issue of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Pandya et al. [5] published an article entitled "Unexplained fractures: child abuse or bone disease: A systematic review". They examined five selected studies to determine how often a bone disease is misdiag-nosed as child abuse. They also determined which bone diseases are more commonly confused with child abuse and the findings that create the confusion. Of the five studies used, three were by Colin Paterson and coauthors of the UK. One of these studies is the highly criticized and controversial, "Osteogenesis imperfecta: the distinction from child abuse and the recognition of a variant form" [6].