Table 1.

Distribution characteristics for demographic data of patients after open and arthroscopic Bankart procedure (absolute and relative frequencies for gender and dislocations before surgery, medians and quartile ranges for age and time from trauma to surgery)

	Open	arthroscopic
Total number of patients	159	40
Gender, ratio males: females	124 (78%): 35 (22%)	35 (87%): 5 (13%)
Age at surgery (y)	27 (21 - 34)	25 (19 - 32)
Time from trauma to surgery (m)	32 (15 - 88)	21 (11 - 52)
Number of dislocations before surgery
up to 5	97 (61%)	24 (60%)
more than 5	62 (39%)	16 (40%)