Orbital Fractures in Women due to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Hartzell, Kathleen N.; Botek, Alison A.; Goldberg, Stuart H.

doi:10.1016/s0161-6420(96)30580-0

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“…8,26 Although facial injuries account for a large number of emergency room visits, there appear to be few reports detailing the etiology and pattern of facial injuries in women. 10,12,14,15 Motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) appear to be the primary cause followed by assaults. Case series reports indicate that 67% of women with facial injuries had been assaulted by a husband or boyfriend, with 68% of battered women in another study sustaining 45% of injuries to the midface.…”

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“…12,17,18 The residual effect of injury-scars, facial asymmetries, damage to dentition, loss of masticator function, and psychologic wounds-persist to remind injured women the level of control by the perpetrator. 3,[15][16][17] When women seek treatment in the ED for facial injuries, in the absence of vehicular trauma, the possibility of IPV must be pursued.…”

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“…We chose head, neck, and facial (HNF) injuries because the findings are readily visible, unambiguous, and the HNF region is a common site for injury during assaults. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] We hypothesized that women with IPV-related injuries would have a higher frequency of injuries localized to the head, neck, and face (HNF) region than women with other injury etiologies. Injury location, such as HNF versus other regional anatomic locations, as a marker for IPV injuries had good sensitivity (90%), but poor specificity (59%).…”

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“…10 A larger study at the same institution found domestic violence to be the mechanism of injury in 3 of 41 (7%) female patients with orbital fractures. Although the awareness of IPV has grown over the past few decades, little has been discussed in the ophthalmic literature.…”

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Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Redfern

2015

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This research reviews and discusses the clinical and social science datasets used to identify victims of domestic violence (DV) in the archaeological record. Clinical sources are skewed by law enforcement and cost issues, dominated by Western female data and suggest that DV is a well-documented form of abuse. Social science sources and perspectives, having arisen from activist movements, are more spatiotemporally diverse in breadth and perspective, and challenge the notion that DV is universal and well-documented, but are biased because they rely upon self-survey reports. Palaeopathology and bioarchaeology have adopted a clinical approach to DV, relying on a pattern of injuries (focussed on the head, face and neck), without critically evaluating whether such datasets are appropriate to the spatiotemporal and socio-cultural diversity present in the archaeological record. A case study evaluating the injury patterns in 964 post-medieval adult females from London (England) demonstrates that the majority of injuries that conform to the clinical model have robust alternative explanations, and only a small minority of females have injuries that may have been produced by interpersonal violence, not necessarily DV.In conclusion, the review highlights that the perspectives of the elderly and male victims are currently neglected in research, and evidence for injury, especially that which may reflect abuse, necessitates interpretation within a 'web of violence' approach, as DV does not occur in isolation from other violence in a community. It challenges the 'check-list' approach to interpretation and suggests that a closer examination of fracture mechanism combined with injury patterning may be a more informative approach with which to identify DV victims of both sexes and identifies the need to integrate other health data into the interpretation of violence and abuse. Overall, it concurs with the minority of clinical and forensic literature that it might not be possible to differentiate DV and assault victims.

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Orbital Fractures in Women due to Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Cited by 57 publications

References 11 publications

A Protocol to Diagnose Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department

A Protocol to Diagnose Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department

Intimate Partner Violence

Identifying and Interpreting Domestic Violence in Archaeological Human Remains: A Critical Review of the Evidence

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