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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2020 Jun 10;76(3):266–276. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.03.020

Figure 2: Comparison of precise locations of bruises in the maxillofacial/dental/neck region in physical elder abuse victims with visible injuries vs. matched unintentional fallers with visible injuries presenting to an urban, academic emergency department.

Figure 2:

Note: This figure is a visual representation of how commonly bruises were found in precise locations among case and control patients. Within the figure, we have placed a circle in each precise location where bruise(s) were found. 171 bruises in cases and 61 bruises in controls contributed to this diagram because they were in at least one precise location within the maxillofacial / dental / neck body region. For bruises that covered multiple precise locations, the diagram represents them in all of these precise locations. The size of each circle’s area corresponds directly to the total number of bruises in that precise location among all case or control patients. To ensure visibility of circles, precise locations with 1–3 bruises are shown with circles with the same area.