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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Study on the relationship between the timing of conversion from external fixation to internal fixation and infection in the treatment of open fractures of extremities

Demographic variables

Data

Number of patients

109

Number of limbs

122

Age (mean ± SD, years)

40.8 ± 13.7

Gender (Males, %)

82 (75.2%)

Smokers

33 (30.3%)

Mechanism of injury

 

Traffic accident

76 (62.3%)

Fall

20 (16.4%)

Machine injury

10 (8.2%)

Bruised

9 (7.4%)

Others

7 (5.7%)

Temporary EF duration group

 

≤ 14 days (%)

62 (50.8%)

15–28 days (%)

17 (13.9%)

> 28 days (%)

43 (35.2%)

Conversion from EF to IF (Directly, %)

92 (75.4%)

Definite IF

 

Locking plate

89 (73%)

Intramedullary nail

33 (27%)