Accidentes por mordedura canina, casos registrados en un hospital de niños de Lima, Perú 1995 - 2009
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15533948 |
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| Authors | Carmen Morales (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, corresponding author), Néstor Falcón P (0000-0003-4144-0494, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Henry Hernández (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Carla Fernandez (0000-0001-8118-4937, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-4634 • E-ISSN: 1726-4642 |
| Publisher | National Institute of Health of Peru (PUBLISHER • PE) |
| DOI | 10.17843/rpmesp.2011.284.428 |
| OpenAlex | W4237855498 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 1 |
From 1995 to 2009, 206 cases of dog bites were recorded among hospitalized patients at the Children National Health of, Lima-Peru. The median of age was 4 years, and for hospitalization time was 3 days. Most patients were males (61.7 %). The bites occurred in the house of a third person (39.3 %), on the street (33.5 %), or in the victim’s house (27.2 %). A 66.5 % of the bites were provoked and 88.8 % were from animals known to the victim. The dog breed was recognized in 34 % (52.9 % were mongrel dogs). Multiple lesions were identified in 79.1 %, and the most frequently bitten areas were head and neck (79.1 %). Complications were reported in 20.4 % and aesthetic sequelae in 94.7
Animal science · Biology · Breed · Head and neck · Medicine · Rabies epidemiology and control · Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries · Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies · Pediatrics · Surgery
| Highly cited | No |
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