Victims of intimate partner violence display distinct patterns of facial injury
Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 14:08
in Health & Medicine
Women who are victims of intimate partner violence tend to have different patterns of facial injury than women who experience facial trauma from other causes, according to a report in the January/February issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This information, and other key characteristics such as a delay before visiting a health care facility, could help surgeons and other physicians recognise patients who are victims of this type of abuse...