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Table 2 Etiology of trauma_ 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

car (%)

25,4 (CI 25,0 - 25,9)

26,9 (CI 24,3 - 29,7)

motorbike (%)

21,0 (CI 20,5 - 21,4)

32,5 (CI 29,6–35,5)

bicycle (%)

9,5 (CI 9,2 - 9,8)

4,1 (CI 3,1 - 5,2)

pedestrian (%)

7,0 (CI 6,8 - 7,3)

5,4 (CI 4,3 - 6,7)

fall > 3 m (%)

19,6 (CI 19,2 - 20,0)

13,5 (CI 11,7 - 15,5)

fall < 3 m (%)

12,6 (CI 12,3 - 12,9)

5,4 (CI 4,2 - 6,7)

other (%)

4,9 (CI 4,7 - 5,2)

12,3 (CI 10,6–14,3)

blunt (%)

96,9 (CI 96,0 - 97,8)

85,3 (CI 80,8 - 90,0)

penetrating (%)

3,1 (CI 2,9 - 3,3)

14,7 (CI 12,9 - 16,7)

  1. Comparison of PNI and control group with regard to different causes and mechanisms of trauma. CI Confidence Interval of 95%