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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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