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Table 3 Association between intra-pelvic arterial lesions and type of fractures following the Young and Burgess and the AO/OTA classifications

From: Incidence rate and topography of intra-pelvic arterial lesions associated with high-energy blunt pelvic ring injuries: a retrospective cohort study

 

Arterial lesion

 

Classification

Absent (n = 112)

Present (n = 15)

p-valuea

Young and Burgess

  

0.003

 NC (n = 25)

25 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

 

 LC (n = 70)

64 (91.4)

6 (8.6)

 

 APC (n = 15)

10 (66.7)

5 (33.3)

 

 VS & CM (n = 17)

13 (76.5)

4 (23.5)

 

AO/OTA

  

0.001

 Type A (n = 26)

26 (100.0)

0 (0.0)

 

 Type B (n = 81)

73 (90.1)

8 (9.9)

 

 Type C (n = 20)

13 (65.0)

7 (35.0)

 
  1. Values are expressed as n (%), where % represents the percentage of fractures of each type associated with the presence or absence of an intra-pelvic arterial lesion
  2. NC: not classifiable; LC: lateral compression; APC: anteroposterior compression; VS: vertical shear; CM: combined mechanism; AO/OTA: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen / Orthopaedic Trauma Association
  3. a Fischer’s exact test. Intra-pelvic arterial lesions were significantly more frequent for anteroposterior compression and vertical shear and combined mechanism type fractures; they were also more frequent for type type C fractures
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