@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology of traumatic lesions in children seen at Cerralvo general hospital",
journal="Acta ortopédica mexicana",
year="2008",
author="Verdeja-Morales, Ezequiel and Mendoza-Contreras, Andres and del Valle-Borjas, Patricia",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="175-179",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To show traumatic injures in children under sixteen-years-old, managed from April 2004 to March 2005, in Cerralvo General Hospital, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cross-Sectional Study. We filled out special formats in every pediatric patient seen in our hospital for traumatic lesion. RESULTS: We attended 535 children (65.0% were male and 34.9% female). Most of the patients (81.3%) had no health insurance. We checked 49.8%on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Most of the accidents were at home (55.7%), and 44.4% were in the evening. Wounds, contusions and fractures accounted for 79.2% of the lesions. The head was affected with 37.8%, the upper extremity in 29.9% and the lower extremity in 22.4%. The injures were caused byfalls in 46.7%, followed by blunt objects in 11.9% and motor vehicles in 11.7%. CONCLUSION: We conclude that injures in small cities as in northeast Nuevo Leon, are less serious than injures in big cities.  </p>  <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="2306-4102",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}