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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: Clinical outcomes of perforator-based propeller flaps versus free flaps in soft tissue reconstruction for lower leg and foot trauma: a retrospective single-centre comparative study

  

PPF

FF

p value

Numbers of patients

 

15

18

 

Sex

   

0.45

 

Male

9

14

 
 

Female

6

4

 

Age (yr): mean ± SD (range)

 

58 ± 22 (21–95)

58 ± 17 (27–85)

0.96

BMI (kg/m2): mean ± SD (range)

 

24 ± 4 (18–36)

23 ± 4 (17–32)

0.86

Comorbidity

 

10

16

0.20

 

DM

4

5

1.00

 

PVD

0

1

1.00

 

HT

5

5

1.00

 

Haemodialysis

1

1

1.00

 

Others

5

11

0.17

Smoking

 

4

7

0.47

ASA

   

0.14

 

I

6

2

 
 

II

8

13

 
 

III

1

3

 
  1. PPF Perforator propeller flap, FF Free flap, SD Standard deviation, BMI Body mass index, DM Diabetes mellitus, PVD Peripheral vascular disease, HT Hypertension, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists
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