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Table 3 Concomitant lesions

From: Damage to the eye and optic nerve in seriously traumatized patients with concomitant head injury: analysis of 84,627 cases from the TraumaRegister DGU® between 2002 and 2015

 

control group

VSI group

thorax (AIS > 1) (%)

43.9 (CI 43.4–44.3)

46.8 (CI 43.7–50.0)

abdomen (AIS > 1) (%)

11.9 (CI 11.6–12.1)

15.0 (CI 13.3–16.9)

spine (AIS > 1) (%)

25.1 (CI 24.7–25.4)

24.1 (CI 21.9–26.5)

pelvis (AIS > 1) (%)

13.1 (CI 12.9–13.4)

13.5 (CI 11.9–15.2)

upper extremity (AIS > 1) (%)

28.8 (CI 28.5–29.2)

33.9 (CI 31.4–36.7)

lower extremity (AIS > 1) (%)

19.7 (CI 19.3–20.0)

23.4 (CI 21.3–25.7)

pneumocephalus (%)

1.1 (CI 1.1–1.2)

4.1 (CI 3.2–5.1)

brain contusion (%)

25.2 (CI 24.8–25.5)

26.1 (CI 23.9–28.5)

global brain edema (%)

8.9 (CI 8.7–9.1)

9.4 (CI 8.0–10.8)

pituitary (%)

0.1 (CI 0.1–0.2)

0.3 (CI 0.1–0.6)

brain stem (%)

2.1 (CI 2.0–2.2)

2.3 (CI 1.7–3.0)

soft tissue of the head (%)

22.7 (CI 22.4–23.0)

34.8 (CI 32.1–37.5)

skull fractures (%)

41.5 (CI 41.0–41.9)

49.2 (CI 46.2–52.5)

orbit fractures (%)

10.2 (CI 9.9–10.4)

31.6 (CI 29.5–33.7)

Le Fort fractures (%)a

7.0 (CI 6.8–7.2)

22.4 (CI 20.5–24.2)

epidural hematoma (%)

10.2 (CI 9.9–10.4)

12.7 (CI 11.1–14.4)

subdural hematoma (%)

33.6 (CI 33.2–34.0)

23.7 (CI 21.5–26.0)

subarachnoid hemorrhage (%)

27.3 (CI 27.0–27.7)

26.4 (CI 24.1–28.8)

intracerebral hemorrhage %)

15.5 (CI 15.3–15.8)

13.4 (CI 11.7–15.1)

external carotid artery (%)

0.0 (CI 0.0–0.0)

0.1 (CI 0.0–0.3)

internal carotid artery (%)

0.3 (CI 0.3–0.3)

0.7 (CI 0.4–1.2)

anterior cerebral artery (%)

0.1 (CI 0.0–0.1)

0.2 (CI 0.0–0.5)

middle cerebral artery (%)

0.2 (CI 0.2–0.3)

0.2 (CI 0.1–0.5)

posterior cerebral artery (%)

0.1 (CI 0.1–0.1)

0.2 (CI 0.0–0.5)

vertebral artery (%)

0.2 (CI 0.2–0.2)

0.4 (CI 0.1–0.8)

cerebral veins (%)

0.4 (CI 0.4–0.5)

0.8 (CI 0.5–1.4)

  1. Detailed exposition of associated lesions in head trauma patients ± prechiasmatic visual system injury (VSI). a Without Le Fort fracture type 1. CI 95% confidence interval