This is a retrospective study of children admitted for burn trauma to the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Prishtina, Kosovo, in the period June 1999-June 200.3. The burns treated were more frequent among males (59.9% of cases) arid mostly involved children in the age group 0-6 yr (79.8%). Deep burns were present in 46.4% of the patients and superficial burns in .53.6% of hospitalized cases. Preschool children (age group, 0-6 yr) constituted 54.5% of the cases, predominantly with deep burns. Scalds were the commonest cause of deep burns (71% of cases). The mean duration of hospital stay was 18.1 days; in cases treated with early escharotomy the duration was 21.3 days, with late escharotomy, 40.8 days, and with conservative treatment, 18.8 days. Of the 124 patients with deep burns, 39.5% were treated surgically, while the remaining 60.5% were necessarily treated conservatively. Early complications occurred in deep burns in 47.6% of the cases, and late complications in 34.7%. The mortality rate was 2.6%.
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