An unusual injury discovered as an incidental finding in a child who received other fatal non-accidental injury is described in this paper. This injury might have presented a difficult diagnostic problem had the child survived. This was the presence of a spinal extradural haemorrhage together with microscopic haemorrhage into the spinal cord at the mid-thoracic level.
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