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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Patient demographics

From: Acute primary repair of extraarticular ligaments and staged surgery in multiple ligament knee injuries

 

All injured knees (N = 31)

Repair group (N = 12)

Staged group (N = 19)

p-Value

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

  1. SD standard deviation, N number, BMI body mass index, ACL anterior cruciate ligament, PCL posterior cruciate ligament, PMC posteromedial corner, PLC posterolateral corner, MCL medial collateral ligament, LCL lateral collateral ligament, KD knee dislocation