title: [Multiple wounds in children. Apropos of 76 cases].
abstract: Polytraumatisms in the child are relatively unfrequent, less severe, and get a lower rate of deaths compared with polytraumatisms in the adult. The indirect traumatism, being most frequent, is explained by projection and ejection. Direct traumatism is scacre. A classification in 4 types is proposed: type I: visceral polytraumatised child, type II: multiple fractured one, type III: mixed visceral and multiple fractured one, type IV: the crippled one. Cranial trauma has to be noticed as being a constant one. The relative unfrequency of spine, belly and thoracic injuries; the most frequent happening of peripheral traumatisms; the severeness of mutilations are emphasised. Multiple fractured children are healed with very remaining mutilations; the social and economic load is heavy; the pophylactics hypothetical.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000453:epidemiology; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Les enfants polytraumatisés. A propos de 76 observations.