Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Characteristics of the patients included in the study
N (1,125) | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Age mean | 41.32 (±17.2) | ||
Gender | Male | 772 | 69 |
Female | 353 | 31 | |
Trauma type | Single injury | 662 | 58.84 |
Multiple injury | 179 | 15.91 | |
Multiple system trauma | 284 | 25.24 | |
Side of tibia fracture | Right | 553 | 49.16 |
Left | 572 | 50.84 | |
Skin | Close fracture | 776 | 68.98 |
Open fracture | 349 | 31.02 | |
Fracture classification | Proximal/3 | 147 | 13.07 |
Middle/3 | 632 | 69.24 | |
Distal/3 | 265 | 23.56 | |
Extensive | 81 | 7.2 | |
Mechanism of fracture | Fall | 399 | 35.47 |
Pedestrian vs motor vehicle accident | 305 | 27.11 | |
Motorcycle accident | 188 | 16.71 | |
Twisting injury | 80 | 7.11 | |
Direct blow | 72 | 6.4 | |
Crushing injury | 40 | 3.56 | |
Bicycle accident | 23 | 2.04 | |
Motorized accident | 18 | 1.6 | |
Internal fixation method | Screw | 21 | 1.87 |
Plate | 186 | 16.53 | |
External fixator | 3 | 0.27 | |
Dynamic locking nail | 22 | 1.96 | |
Static locking nail | 886 | 78.76 | |
Unlocked nail | 7 | 0.62 | |
Early local complication | None | 1,014 | 90.13 |
Compartment syndrome | 87 | 7.73 | |
Reduction/fixation failure | 13 | 1.16 | |
Wound infection | 7 | 0.62 | |
Neurovascular loss | 4 | 0.36 | |