[Epidemio-clinical and therapy study of femoral fractures in children]

Evaluate the epidemio-clinical and therapeutic aspects of the femur's fracture of the child.

It was about a prospective study done from October 1st, 2005 to September 30, 2006 on all children of 0 to 15 years old admitted for femur fracture, treated and followed in the trauma center of hôpital Gabriel Touré. Disappeared patients have not been included.

We brought together during a period of 12 months 47 cases of fracture in 45 children representing 26 % of the activities of trauma unit of hôpital Gabriel Touré. Among our patients 25 were boys and 20 girls. The average age was 7.5 yeras +/-4. The public highway accident was the first cause (68.8%) followed by domestic accident (22.2%), sportive (6.6%), obstetrical (2.2%). The treatment was orthopaedic in 52.17% and surgical in 47.83%. Complications were the following: residual pain in 6.6%, length disparity of the limbs in 4.4%, secondary slipping in 2.2% and hypertrophic callus in 2.2%. P>0.05. The results were good in 71.7 % of the cases, passable in 24 % and bad in 4.3% of the cases.

Femur fracture is a frequent affection by which the first cause remains the public highway accident.