Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 3 Comparison of patients with ACS with those without ACS
Tibial fracture no ACS | Tibial fracture with ACS | Test statistics | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | 42.01 (17.3) | 33.08 (12.8) | t = 4.7037; df = 1123 | <0.001 | |
Gender | Male | 706 | 66 | χ2 = 2.29; df = 1 | 0.13 |
Female | 332 | 21 | |||
Skin | Closed | 710 | 66 | χ2 = 2.0884; df = 1 | 0.148 |
Open | 328 | 21 | |||
Fracture classification | Proximal/3 | 136 | 11 | χ2 = 2.3738; df = 3 | 0.499 |
Middle/3 | 589 | 43 | |||
Distal/3 | 240 | 25 | |||
Extensive | 73 | 8 | |||
Trauma type | Single injury | 608 | 54 | χ2 = 1.0464; df = 2 | 0.593 |
Multiple system trauma | 266 | 18 | |||
Multiple injury | 164 | 15 | |||
Fracture side | Left | 529 | 43 | χ2 = 0.0760; df = 1 | 0.783 |
Right | 509 | 44 | |||
Fixation method Mechanism of injury | Static locking nail | 812 | 74 | χ2 = 3.1695; df = 5 | 0.674 |
Plate | 176 | 10 | |||
Dynamic locking nail | 21 | 1 | |||
Screw | 20 | 1 | |||
Unlocked nail | 6 | 1 | |||
External fixator | 3 | 0 | |||
Fall | 399 | 26 | χ2 = 4.4011; df = 7 | 0.733 | |
Pedestrian vs motor vehicle | 305 | 22 | |||
Motor accident | 188 | 19 | |||
Twisting injury | 80 | 6 | |||
Blow | 72 | 6 | |||
Crushing injury | 40 | 5 | |||
Motorized accident | 18 | 2 | |||
Bicycle | 23 | 1 | |||
ISS | 01–10 | 802 | 76 | χ2 = 4.8735; df = 3; | 0.181 |
11–20 | 109 | 5 | |||
21–30 | 74 | 4 | |||
>30 | 53 | 2 |