Table 1.

Five most common body parts burned among children and adults and women and men presenting to emergency centres in the Western Cape*.

Body part	Children (n = 1013) %	Adults (n = 900) %	Women (n = 904) %	Men (n = 1011) %
Lower extremities	13.1	13.9	15.8	11.4
Trunk including buttocks	12.1	11.3	12.1	11.6
Upper extremities excluding hands	9.6	9.9	10.1	9.4
Hands	8.6		7.0	7.5
Upper extremities and trunk		7.7
Head	7.9	7.1	8.1	7.1

*Age was unknown for two patients