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The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and cause of burns in children of our population.

This was a retrospective study that included 399 patients with burns, younger than 15 years old who were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, University Clinical Center of Kosovo, between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2010. The patients were categorized into the following three age groups: infants and toddlers (0–2 years), early childhood (3–6 years), and late childhood (7–15 years). Arithmetic median and standard deviation were calculated from statistical parameters for gender and age; the differences between the three age groups were measured with one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). A p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

During the study period 2005–2010, in our population, burns in children were predominant in boys with 257 cases or …