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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Patient demographic

From: Plating versus elastic stable intramedullary nailing for displaced pediatric midshaft clavicular fractures

Parameters

ESIN (N = 45)

Plate (N = 28)

P value

Sex

   

 Male

27

17

0.96

 Female

18

11

Side

   

 Left

18

11

0.96

 Right

27

17

Age (years)

12.2 ± 1.5 (11, 13)

12.2 ± 1.4 (11, 13)

0.97

Body weight (kg)

38.9 ± 5.2 (34.6, 43.1)

39.1 ± 5.3 (34.7, 42.9)

0.87

Time from injury to surgery (days)

2.0 ± 0.9 (1, 3)

2.2 ± 0.8 (1, 3)

0.43

Follow-up (months)

28.7 ± 4.2 (25.0, 32.3)

29.6 ± 4.6 (25.7, 32.9)

0.74

  1. Values of continuous variables are described as mean ± SD (interquartile range)
  2. ESIN elastic stable intramedullary nail