From March 1991 to December 1994, 243 burn patients under the age of fifteen visit to Kon-Kuk university medical college Hospital. Among of them, 75 burn sites were hand. In these pediatric hand burn patients, retrospective study was done for the
review
of following issues: age and sex distribution, cause of burn, hourly distribution of accident, depth of brun and method of treatment.
@ES The summary of results were as follows:
@EN 1) Pediatric hand burn was 30.86% of all visited burn patients under 15 years old. 2) The most common cause of burns was scalding burn as 44 cases(58.66%), followed by contact burn as 12 cases(16.00%) and steam burn 12 cases(16.00%),
electrical
burn
as 4 cases (5.33%) and flame burn as 3 cases(4.00%). 3) The most prevalent age group was under 1 year old 25 cases(33.33%). 4) The most common injured time range was between 4p.m. and 8p.m. 29 cases(38.66%). 5) The depth distribution was as
follows: 2nd
degree 60 cases(80.00%), 3rd degree 11 cases(14.66%), 1st degree 3 cases(4.0%) and 4th and degree 1 cases(1.33%) 6) The method of treatment was as follow distribution : conservative treatment 73 cases(96%) and operative treatment 3 cases(4%) and
admission was 18 cases(14.00%), 7) The 2 cases(2.66%) (were complicated as scar contracture with syndactyly in one case.
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