Table 2.
Patient Demographics by the Three Approaches.
| All patients (N = 39) |
Palm (n = 22) |
Phalanx (n = 12) |
Webspace (n = 5) |
P value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Sex | 0.543 | ||||||||
| Male | 17 | 43.6 | 8 | 47.1 | 6 | 35.3 | 3 | 17.7 | |
| Female | 22 | 56.4 | 14 | 63.6 | 6 | 27.3 | 2 | 9.1 | |
| Race | 0.894 | ||||||||
| White | 34 | 87.2 | 18 | 52.9 | 11 | 32.4 | 5 | 14.7 | |
| Black | 3 | 7.7 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Other | 2 | 5.1 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Grade | 0.406 | ||||||||
| 1.0 | 5 | 12.8 | 4 | 80.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 20.0 | |
| 2.0 | 6 | 15.4 | 4 | 66.7 | 1 | 16.7 | 1 | 16.7 | |
| 3.0 | 28 | 71.8 | 14 | 50.0 | 11 | 39.3 | 3 | 10.7 | |
| Affected side | 0.904 | ||||||||
| Right | 21 | 53.8 | 11 | 52.4 | 7 | 33.3 | 3 | 14.3 | |
| Left | 18 | 46.2 | 11 | 61.1 | 5 | 27.8 | 2 | 11.1 | |
| Affected finger | 0.104 | ||||||||
| Index | 2 | 5.1 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Long | 11 | 28.2 | 8 | 72.7 | 2 | 18.2 | 1 | 9.1 | |
| Ring | 9 | 23.1 | 3 | 33.3 | 6 | 66.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Small | 1 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | |
| Thumb | 16 | 41.0 | 9 | 56.3 | 4 | 25.0 | 3 | 18.8 | |
| Age (mean, SD) | 57.7, 9.3 | 54.7, 10.2 | 62.5, 6.5 | 58.8, 5.4 | 0.060 | ||||
| Symptom duration (mean, SD) | 2.5, 1.3 | 2.4, 1.2 | 3.0, 1.6 | 1.5, 0.4 | 0.062 | ||||
Note. Data were expressed as weighted number (n) and percent prevalence (%). Totals do not add up to 100% due to rounding or missing. P values were calculated by chi-squred tests or Fisher’s exact method, ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis test.