[Diagnostics and Significance Evaluation in Cases of Suspected Child Sexual Assault - An Analysis of 210 Cases].

Background: Child sexual abuse is difficult to diagnose in children and it is a challenging task for all involved medical disciplines of a medical child protection unit. The present study describes the factors that led patients to be presented to a child protection unit under the suspicion of sexual abuse and the diagnostic instruments which were used in order to substantiate or prove suspicious fact.

Patients And Method: This study was conducted retrospectively on the basis of 210 children and adolescents ranged in age between 4 months and 18 years, who were presented to the medical child protection unit of Frankfurt am Main with suspected sexual abuse in the period from 2010 to 2015.