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Table 1 Epidemiology_ upper limb nerve injury

From: Nerve injury in severe trauma with upper extremity involvement: evaluation of 49,382 patients from the TraumaRegister DGU® between 2002 and 2015

 

control group

PNI group

proportion of all patients (%)

96,7 (CI 95,9 - 97,6)

3,3 (CI 3,1 - 3,4)

male (%)

73,2 (CI 72,5 - 74,0)

78,6 (CI 74,3–83,1)

mean / median age (years)

47,2 / 47,0 (SD 20,2)

40,6 / 39,0 (SD 17,6)

1–15 years (%)

2,8 (CI 2,7 - 3,0)

1,7 (CI 1,1 - 2,5)

16–59 years (%)

68,9 (CI 68,1–69,6)

82,7 (CI 78,3–87,3)

60–69 years (%)

11,7 (CI 11,4–12,0)

8,6 (CI 7,2 - 10,1)

70–79 years (%)

10,3 (CI 10,0 - 10,6)

4,7 (CI 3,7 - 5,9)

80 years or more (%)

6,4 (CI 6,1 - 6,6)

2,3 (CI 1,6 - 3,2)

  1. This table shows epidemiological data of 49,382 patients with upper extremity trauma (= all patients). Additionally to the mean and median age a further subdivision into 5 age bands is provided. CI Confidence Interval of 95%, SD Standard Deviation