The condition is usually recognised by brain damage and bleeding into the eye and around the brain, but researchers in the British Medical Journal have said the concept that certain eye injuries are diagnostic of the syndrome "is scientifically questionable and needs to be re-examined".
The researchers said that the criteria used by some doctors to diagnose shaken-baby syndrome were "not supported by objective scientific evidence" when taken out of context.
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