Muram D
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 1993 Dec;5(6):784-90.
Child sexual abuse is being recognized as a common and serious problem which affects children regardless of their age, sex, socio-economic class, or geographic location. Children of all ages, from infancy to young adulthood, have been victims of abuse. It is well accepted that the number of reported incidents of child sexual abuse represents only a portion of the actual number of victims. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect estimates the number of child-victims to be more than 200,000 per year. Many of these children are brought to emergency facilities or to their private physician's office for evaluation. Many physicians have difficulties in correctly identifying and managing child-victims of sexual abuse. The purpose of this chapter is to review the most recent advances in the medical evaluation of children who are the victims of sexual abuse.
儿童性虐待正被视为一个普遍且严重的问题，它影响着各个年龄段、性别、社会经济阶层或地理位置的儿童。从婴儿期到青年期的所有年龄段儿童都曾是虐待的受害者。人们普遍认为，报告的儿童性虐待事件数量仅占实际受害者数量的一部分。国家儿童虐待与忽视中心估计，每年儿童受害者的数量超过20万。许多这类儿童被带到急诊机构或私人医生办公室进行评估。许多医生在正确识别和处理性虐待儿童受害者方面存在困难。本章的目的是回顾在对遭受性虐待儿童进行医学评估方面的最新进展。
