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Table 1 Patients’ data from the 183 patients

From: An antibiotic cement-coated locking plate as a temporary fixation for treatment of infected bone defects: a new method of stabilization

Number (male-to-female), n

 

183 (154:29)

Mean age (range), years

 

42.8 (10–68)

Site (femur; tibia; fibula), n

 

81; 100; 2

Duration of bone infection (range), months

 

0.5–540

Aetiology (no. of patients)

Post-traumatic

148

 Closed fractures

 54

 Open fractures

 94

Haematogenous

35

Organisms (no. of patients)

Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

56 (16)

Enterobacter cloacae

13

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

11

Escherichia coli

9

 

Negative

69

Cierny-Mader classification

III

48

(no. of patients)

IV

135

Physiologic class

A

103

 

B

80

Smoker

 

70

Follow-up (12–66 months)

Extra revision

Infection-free bone healing

26/183

175/183