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Victims of intimate partner violence display distinct patterns of facial injury
Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, February 5th, 2009
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 recognize patients who are victims of this type of abuse.
Intimate partner violence—abuse by a spouse or significant other—affects approximately 25 percent to 33 percent of women in the United States, according to background information in the...
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