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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Perioperative data

From: Quantification of surgical trauma: comparison of conventional and minimally invasive surgical techniques for pertrochanteric fracture surgery based on markers of inflammation (interleukins)

 

Conventional (36 subjects)

MIO (32 subjects)

Average difference (95 % CI)

p Value

Length of incision (cm)

11.65 ± 2.64

7.05 ± 1.77

4.61 (3.50 to 5.71)

<0.0001

Duration of surgery (min)

56.67 ± 22.42

54.84 ± 15.94

1.82 (−7.71 to 11.35)

0.7038

Type of fixation

1.89 ± 0.67

2.00 ± 0.57

−0.11 (−0.41 to 0.19)

0.4650

Units transfused

2.22 ± 0.99

1.09 ± 1.20

1.13 (0.59 to 1.66)

<0.0001

  1. Bold values indicate significant differences found for length of incision and units transfused (Student t test)
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