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Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients (n = 314) with displaced clavicle fractures undergoing surgeries (n = 316) compared between those without chest wall injury (no-CWI), concomitant CWI, and minor and complex CWI

From: Complications of clavicle fracture surgery in patients with concomitant chest wall injury: a retrospective study

Variable

Group

p-value

No-CWI (n = 226)

CWI (n = 90)

Minor-CWI (n = 36)

Complex-CWI (n = 54)

Age, years

40 (25–55)

53 (45–60)

53 (46–59)

53 (42–62)

< 0.0001

Sex, male

148 (65.5%)

56 (62.2%)

21 (58.3%)

35 (64.8%)

0.84

BMI, kg/m2

23 (20–26)

25 (23–27)

25 (22–27)

25 (23–27)

0.0001

Smoking

 Current

59 (26.1%)

31 (34.4%)

14 (38.9%)

17 (31.5%)

0.27

 Previously

12 (5.3%)

1 (1.1%)

1 (2.8%)

0 (0)

0.12

Diabetes

16 (7.1%)

10 (11.1%)

4 (11.1%)

6 (11.1%)

0.57

Clavicle fracture

    

0.94

 Left

116 (51.3%)

49 (54.4%)

20 (55.6%)

29 (53.7%)

 

 Right

110 (48.7%)

41 (45.6%)

16 (44.4%)

25 (46.3%)

 

Rib fracture number

0 (0)

4 (2–6)

2 (1–3)

6 (5–6)

< 0.0001

AO type

    

0.088

 15.1

2 (0.9%)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 

 15.2

152 (67.3%)

73 (81.1%)

28 (77.8%

45 (83.3%)

 

 15.3

72 (31.8%)

17 (18.9%)

8 (22.2%)

9 (16.7%)

 

Associated injury

17 (7.5%)

13 (14.4%)

4 (11.1%)

9 (16.7%)

0.12

  1. Numerical data is presented as the median (Interquartile range); categorical data as the number n (%). CWI: chest wall injury; BMI: Body Mass Index; no: Number; AO: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen classification. Complex CWI: flail chest, four or more rib fractures; Associated injury: abbreviated Injury Scale ≧3
  2. Table of pairwise comparison between groups is in Additional file 1