Table 3.
Fracture patterns and detailed fracture localization in relation to age and gender in pediatric patients presenting with a mandibular fracture. The number of female (F) and male (M) patients per age group is reported (n)
| Age group | Gender | Fracture pattern | Fracture localization | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | F | M | Symphysis | Parasymphysis | Corpus | Angle | Condylar neck | Condylar head | |||
| Years | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | |
| 1–5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | Single | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Double | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Triple | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 6–12 | 24 | 6 | 16 | Single | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Double | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Triple | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 13–16 | 61 | 10 | 51 | Single | 22 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | ||
| Double | 34 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 6 | ||||
| Triple | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
| Complex | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||