Citation

Kanchan T, Menezes RG. Trop. Doct. 2008; 38(3): 188-189.

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore 575001, India tanujkanchan@yahoo.co.in, tanujkanchan@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1258/td.2007.070274

PMID

18628559

Abstract

Children in the first decade of life are extremely vulnerable to accidents. Seventy-five cases of accidental deaths in children aged less than ten years were identified in a retrospective review of medicolegal autopsies during 1993-2006 in Manipal, India. Boys were more likely to suffer accidental death that girls (male-female ratio 2.3:1). Road traffic accidents accounted for the majority of the deaths (56%), followed by burns (21.4%).

Language: en