Titre : | Femur fractures in infants and young children. (2004) |
Auteurs : | BROWN (Desmond) : USA. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. Dartmouth. Medical School. Hanover. NH. ; FISHER (Elliott) : USA. Department of Community and Family Medicine. Dartmouth Medical School. Hanover. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 94, n° 4, 2004) |
Pagination : | 558-560 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Fracture ; Nourrisson ; Homme ; Enfant ; Accident ; Morbidité [épidémiologie] ; Epidémiologie ; Morbidité ; Taux ; Traumatisme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Système ostéoarticulaire [pathologie] ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS bVHcR0x7. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Using an administrative database, we determined rates of femur fracture by year of age for children younger than 6 years and by month of age. The highest rate of femur fracture was in children younger than 1 year and in 2-year-olds ; the greatest number of fractures occurred during the third month of life. While femur fractures in children are often due to accidental injury, the reasons for the peak in the first year and the subsequent decline are not clear. |