[Epidemiology of traumatic lesions in children seen at Cerralvo General Hospital].
OBJECTIVE
To show traumatic injures in children under sixteen-years-old, managed from April 2004 to March 2005, in Cerralvo General Hospital, Nuevo León, Mexico.


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 by falls in 46.7%, followed by blunt objects in 11.9% and motor vehicles in 11.7%.


CONCLUSIONS
We conclude that injures in small cities as in northeast Nuevo León, are less serious than injures in big cities.
Verdeja-Morales
Ezequiel
E
Hospital General de Cerralvo, Servicios de Salud de Nuevo León, C. Severio Núm. 3119 Fracc. Camino Real, Ciudad Guadalupe, N.L. verdeja63@hotmail.com
del Valle-Borjas
Patricia
P
Mendoza-Contreras
Andrés
A
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*