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Health care workers should remember that some alleged marks of abuse on a young child may have been caused instead by constrictive clothing. Four children were examined in a hospital with signs of a healed contact burn on their legs. Such burns can be caused by a clothes iron, curling iron or heater grid. However, further investigation revealed that two of the children had worn tight boots or pajama cuffs. Another child's marks matched the leg holes in the infant swing she had been sitting in. The fourth child's marks were thought to be caused by a child-safety seat.