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Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Child Abuse Committee response regarding Miller, Stolfi and Ayoub’s flawed theories about child abuse and metabolic bone disease

  • Stephen D. Brown ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Joelle A. Moreno , Natasha Shur and Sabah Servaes

Corresponding author: Stephen D. Brown, MD, Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2019-11-21
Accepted: 2020-01-16
Published Online: 2020-02-21
Published in Print: 2020-04-28

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