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Features of non-accidental injuries:<ref name=pmid20141554>{{cite journal |author=Guyomarc'h P, Campagna-Vaillancourt M, Kremer C, Sauvageau A |title=Discrimination of falls and blows in blunt head trauma: a multi-criteria approach |journal=J. Forensic Sci. |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=423–7 |year=2010 |month=March |pmid=20141554 |doi=10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01310.x |url=}}</ref>
Features of non-accidental injuries:<ref name=pmid20141554>{{cite journal |author=Guyomarc'h P, Campagna-Vaillancourt M, Kremer C, Sauvageau A |title=Discrimination of falls and blows in blunt head trauma: a multi-criteria approach |journal=J. Forensic Sci. |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=423–7 |year=2010 |month=March |pmid=20141554 |doi=10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01310.x |url=}}</ref>
*Lacerations:
*Lacerations:
**Number - more than three.
**More than three.
**Length >= 7 cm or more.
**Length >= 7 cm or more.
**Location:
**Location:
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*Fractures:
*Fractures:
**Comminuted or depressed calvarial fractures.  
**Comminuted or depressed calvarial fractures.  
**Fractures located above the HBL.
**Location:
**Left-sided fractures.
***Fractures located above the HBL.
*Facial injuries:
***Left-sided fractures.
**Greater than four facial contusions or lacerations.
***Facial fractures.
**Facial fractures.
*Contusions:
*"Postcranial osseous" [sic] and/or visceral trauma.
**Greater than four facial contusions.
*Other:
**"Postcranial osseous" [sic] (non-rib, non-skull) and/or visceral trauma.
 
Note: The paper doesn't give odds ratios for the the different features -- like in the rational clinical exam series... it is a shame.


===Commotio cordis===
===Commotio cordis===