Femur fractures in infants and young children.
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.
Brown
Desmond
D
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA. tdesmond.brown@bmc.org
Fisher
Elliott
E
D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology