Background: Children and adolescents’ assault-related otorhinolaryngology injuries pose critical public health challenges in resource-limited settings, yet comprehensive data from developing countries remain scarce. This study determined the otorhinolaryngology head and neck presentation, epidemiology, pathology, and management of children and adolescents with assault over a 5-year period of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgical practices in Nigeria. Methodology: A prospective study of 368 patients aged 72h: OR=2.51, p=0.001) and severe ISS. Conclusion: Assault-related children and adolescent otorhinolaryngology injuries in developing countries reflect intersecting vulnerabilities: poverty, healthcare access barriers, and family-centered violence. Decentralizing trauma care, criminalizing corporal punishment, and prioritizing surgical triage for high-risk injuries (neck/throat: OR=4.26) are urgently needed to reduce mortality and disability.
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