Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Overall demographic and fracture descriptive data
From: Associated lesions in posterior wall acetabular fractures: not a valid predictor of failure
Variable | Results |
|---|---|
Number of cases n | 33 |
Average age in years (SD, range) | 34 (17, 10–70) |
Sex n male:n female (%:%) | 28:5 (85 %:15 %) |
Side n right:n left (%:%) | 17:16 (52 %:48 %) |
Cause n (%) | |
Car accident | 25 (76 %) |
Motorbike accident | 4 (12 %) |
Fall, sports accident | 4 (12 %) |
Fracture type n isol. PW: n associated PW (%:%) | 12:21 (36 %:64 %) |
Joint dislocation at admission n (%) | 28 (85 %) |
Multiple fragments n (%) | 25 (76 %) |
Marginal impaction n (%) | 13 (39 %) |
Intra-articular fracture n (%) | 13 (39 %) |
Femoral head lesion n (%) | 18 (55 %) |
Traumatic nerve palsy n (%) | 5 (15 %) |
Average delay to injury-related surgery in days (SD, range) | 8 (7.6, 1–40) |
Average surgery time in minutes (SD, range) | 202 (49, 120–300) |
Average follow-up period in months (SD, range) | 55 (34, 12–135) |
Secondary osteoarthritis n (%) | 9 (27 %) |
Reoperation n (%) | |
Total hip replacement | 5 (15 %) |
Arthrodesis | 1 (3 %) |