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Table 1 Patients demographics

From: Antibiotic artificial bone implantation for the treatment of infection after internal fixation of tibial plateau fractures

Variables

No.of cases

32

Sex (Male/Female)

18/14

Mean age (years)

49.66 ± 10.49

Location

Left side

19

Right side

13

Initial trauma

Traffic trauma

11

Falling injury

18

Crush injury

3

Open fracture

7

Closed fracture

25

The interval between the infection and the first operation(weeks)

4.69 ± 3.52

Infection of the incision

Medial incision infection

7

Ateral incision infection

4

Bilateral incision infection

21

Inflammatory indicators before surgery

WBC

(9.07 ± 3.53) × 109

CRP

35.63 ± 34.65

ESR

47.09 ± 28.03

  1. Data shown as number or mean ± standard deviation. P < 0.05, significant difference
  2. WBC white blood cell
  3. CRP C-reactive protein
  4. ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate