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. 2012 Apr 24;83(2):165–170. doi: 10.3109/17453674.2011.641102

Table 2.

Patient characteristics for primary stabilization

Anterior Posterior Multidirectional
(n = 336) (n = 40) (n = 28)
Sex (%male) 68 73 61
Age (median, range) 25 (13–74) 28 (14–56) 25 (10–45)
Instability in contralateral shoulder, n (%)
34 (10) 5 12
Traumatic debut, n (%)
 definitive 299 (89) 20 11
 uncertain 20 (6) 9 4
Month of symptoms, median (range) 28 (0–489) 34 (4–234) 60
Most common activities at injury (n) Daily activity (55) Daily activity (6) Soccer (2)
Ski (43) Handball (5) Ski (2)
Soccer (24)
Handball (20)
Snowboard (17)
Epilepsy (10)
Assault (10)
MC (8)
Volleyball (8)
Car (7)
Weight lifting (7)
Prophylactic antibiotics, n (%) 223 (69) 27 17
NSAID, n (%) 97 (31) 11 9
Day surgery, n (%) 133 (41) 8 9
Surgery position (beach), n (%) a 86 (30) 3 3
Operating time (median, range) 70 (18–200) 86 84
Concomitant SLAP lesion, n (%) a 70 (23) 12 6
Glenoid fracture, n (%) 21 (6) 0 0
Glenoid resorption, n (%) 28 (8) 1 0
HAGL (anterior or posterior) 0 1 1
Number of suture anchors (mean) a 2.61 2.38 2.39

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