Citation

Suresh N, Harini G, Radhika R, Chidambaram B. Indian J. Pediatr. 2010; 77(4): 459-460.

Affiliation

Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nageswara Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, drsuresh30@rediffmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, K C Chaudhuri Foundation and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12098-010-0013-5

PMID

20140777

Abstract

Case records of children admitted with head injury due to TV fall in a pediatric tertiary care hospital in Chennai, during March 2007-February 2008 were analysed retrospectively. Out of the 11 children admitted 6 (54%) were in 1-2 yr age group. Bleeding from the ear, nose and throat was the commonest, finding followed by a skull fracture, seen on imaging studies. These were observed in 9 (81.81%) and 8(72.8%) children respectively. There was no mortality.

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