BACKGROUND/AIM: @entity174 in @entity1 most often occur as a consequence of traffic accidents, during play and sport activities, and due to different pathological states. Diagnosis is rather simple and it includes physical and radiographical examination. @entity174 treatment in @entity1 can be operative and unoperative, depending on several facts: age, localisation and type of @entity174 , @entity130 of soft tissues, the presence of other injuries (in polytrauma), economical and social aspects, ect. The aim of this study was to present epidemiological characteristics of @entity174 , that is in the stage of development, including a special analysis of the used treatment techniques, as well as the comparison of the obtained data with those from the literature. METHODS: The evaluation included following parameters: age, gender, cause, localisation and type of femur @entity174 , applied treatment and hospitalisation duration. RESULTS: Among the presented 143 @entity1 with femur @entity174 , 109 were @entity1 and 34 were @entity1 (3.2:1 ratio; p = 0.0001). Average age for both genders was 8.6 years, and no difference between @entity1 and @entity1 were found for the age (p = 0.758). In total, the most common @entity174 was diaphyseal @entity174 of femur in 93 (65.03%) @entity1 . The second was proximal @entity174 in 30 (20.98%) @entity1 , and the last distal @entity174 of the femur in 20 (13.99%) @entity1 (p = 0.0001). Three main causes of femur @entity174 can be distinguished: during play and sport activities in 67 (46.8%) @entity1 , in traffic accidents in 64 (44.8%) @entity1 , and pathological @entity174 in 12 (8.4%) @entity1 . Inoperative treatment was applied in 82 (57.3%) @entity1 , and operative one in 61 (42.7%) @entity1 . The most common treatment was traction, in 71 (49.6%) @entity1 , followed by immobilization by hip spica cast mostly in young @entity1 . Intramedullar elastic nailing was applied in 16 (11.2%) cases, and intra-medullar rigid nailing (K  ntscher) in 19 (13.3%) cases. Significantly longer hospitalization period was detected after traction (21 days) comparing to other ways of treatment, mainly operative or hip spica cast (5 to 10 days). CONCLUSION: In young @entity1 the standard treatment was hip spica cast after traction. Intramedullar elastic nailing is a modern trend accepted as standard in our approach to femur @entity174 treatment in @entity1 .

[Pediatric femur XXXX , epidemiology and treatment].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'patients', 'boys', 'girls'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['joint injuries'] @entity174 :: ('MESH:D050723', 'Disease') :: ['fractures', 'Femur fractures', 'fracture', 'pediatric femur fractures']
@entity174 :: (MESH:D050723,Disease) :: ['fractures']
