Retinal and subdural haemorrhages: Aoki revisited

• retinal haemorrhages
• subdural haemorrhages

In the United States and much of the English speaking world, the combination of retinal and subdural haemorrhages in a very young child is highly suggestive of non-accidental injury and felt to be incompatible with a history of a minor fall. Thus, when Aoki et al¹ published 26 cases of infants, age 3–14 months, with this combination following minimal falls, even though they stated in their article “in this series, none of the patients …