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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Patients’ demographics

From: Minimally invasive K-wire fixation of displaced intraarticular calcaneal fractures through a minimal sinus tarsi approach

Characteristic

Value

Mean age

43.25 ± 4.26 years

Gender

40 men

6 women

Side

36 unilateral

10 bilateral

Mechanism of injury

Fall from height in 40 cases

Motor vehicle accident in 6 cases

Smoking

20 smokers

26 nonsmokers

Associated comorbidities

3 uncontrolled diabetes

2 HCV

2 hypertensive

Mean time from injury to surgery

9.6 days

Sanders type

Type 2A: 6

Type 2B: 12

Type 2C: 6

Type 3AB: 6

Type 3AC: 9

Type 3BC: 5

Type 4: 12

Mean follow-up period

22.36 months

  1. N = 56 feet in 46 patients