Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
All injured knees (N = 31) | Repair group (N = 12) | Staged group (N = 19) | p-Value | |
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Age (years): mean ± SD (range) | 48.0 ± 20.6 (14–75) | 55.9 ± 17.5 (18–75) | 42.9 ± 21.2 (14–73) | 0.093 |
Sex (male:female) | 21 (67.7%):10 (32.3%) | 9 (75.0%):3 (25.0%) | 12 (63.2%):7 (36.8%) | 0.697 |
BMI (kg/m2): mean ± SD (range) | 25.1 ± 4.4 (19.7–39.5) | 25.7 ± 5.3 (20.8–39.5) | 24.8 ± 3.8 (19.7–32.0) | 0.703 |
Time to primary repair (days) | 5.9 ± 5.5 (0–20) | 6.3 ± 7.1 (0–20) | 5.7 ± 4.5 (0–14) | 0.646 |
Damaged ligaments N (%) | ||||
PCL, PMC, and/or PLC | 6 (19.3%) | 3 (25.0%) | 3 (15.8%) | 0.879 |
ACL, PCL, MCL (KD III-M) | 18 (58.1%) | 7 (58.3%) | 11 (57.9%) | |
ACL, PCL, LCL (KD III-L) | 3 (9.7%) | 1 (8.3%) | 2 (10.5%) | |
ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL (KD IV) | 4 (12.9%) | 1 (8.3%) | 3 (15.8%) | |
Associated injuries, N (%) | ||||
Nerve injury | 3 (9.7%) | 1 (8.3%) | 2 (10.5%) | 1.000 |
Vascular injury | 5 (16.1%) | 3 (25.0%) | 2 (10.5%) | 0.350 |
Follow-up (months) mean ± SD (range) | 60.9 ± 31.7 (24–160) | 50.0 ± 23.0 (24–78) | 67.6 ± 34.9 (24–160) | 0.164 |