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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Baseline patient characteristics

From: Frequency and characteristics of bacterial and viral low-grade infections of the intervertebral discs: a prospective, observational study

 

n

%

 

Total number of patients

392

100

 

Cervical spine

93

23.7

 

Thoracic spine

4

1.02

 

Lumbar spine

295

75.3

 

Dorsal

262

66.84

 

Ventral

117

29.85

 

Lateral

13

3.32

 

1-segment surgery

347

88.52

 

2-segment surgery

36

9.18

 

3-segment surgery

8

2.04

 

4-segment surgery

1

0.26

 
 

male

female

 

Gender

203 (51.79%)

189 (48.21%)

 
 

Mean

SD

Median

Age (years)

58.09

14.83

58.88

ODI (%)

56.52

16.82

58

NDI (%)

39.87

17.28

38.05

CRP (mg/dl)

0.4

0.63

0.22

  1. Mean, standard deviation and median for metric variables, and absolute and relative frequencies for nominal and ordinal variables for the total study population are provided