@article{ref1,
title="Musculoskeletal injuries: a private specialist hospital perspective",
journal="Nigerian quarterly journal of hospital medicine",
year="2008",
author="Obalum, D. C.",
volume="18",
number="3",
pages="125-127",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Trauma remains one of the leading causes of death globally. It also leads to short and long term morbidity as well as enormous economic loss, especially for a developing economy such as Nigeria. OBJECTIVE: To describe the pattern and outcome of musculoskeletal injuries. METHOD: This is a 5-year retrospective study of musculoskeletal injuries seen in Havana Specialist Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. A private hospital servicing mainly families of the upper and middle economic class. RESULTS: One thousand, one hundred and twenty-one cases were studied. Males accounted for 730 (65.1%). Ages 3 weeks to 78 years were affected with a mean of 34 years and peak incidence in the 21-30 years group. Road traffic accident caused 959(85.5%) of the injuries, followed by falls 76 (6.8%) and gunshots 52 (4.6%). Four hundred and eighty-three (50.4%) of the RTA were motorcycle related. Lower limbs alone were affected in 228 patients (20.3%), upper limbs in 74 (6.6%), head and neck in 41 (3.7%). Two hundred and fifty-eight patients (23.0%) had two hundred and sixty-six fractures. Five hundred and eight patients (45.3%) had multiple injuries. Twenty-five patients (2.2%) died. CONCLUSION: Musculoskeletal injuries are mostly caused by road traffic accidents and affects mainly young adult males. Motorcycle related incidents constitute majority of road traffic accidents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0189-2657",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}