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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: More weighted cancellous bone can be harvested from the proximal tibia with less donor site pain than anterior iliac crest corticocancellous bone harvesting: retrospective review

Demographic characteristic

 

Patients, n

51

Sex, M/F

40/11

Average age (range), yr

48.2 (19–75)

BMI (range), kg/m2

25.3 (19.5–33.4)

Reasons of bony defect, n (%)

 

 Posttraumatic osteomyelitis

34 (66.7)

 Infected nonunion

15 (29.4)

 Open fracture

2 (3.9)

Length of bony defect (range) cm

8.6 (3.6–20.9)