Table 1.

epidemiology_control_PNI

	Control group	PNI group
proportion of all leg injured patients (%)	98,2	1,8
male (%)	68,4	80,0
mean/median age (years)	46,7/46,0 (SD 21,8)	38,1/36,0 (SD 17,1)
1–15 years (%)	3,4	2,2
16–59 years (%)	67,5	86,1
60–69 years (%)	10,0	6,5
70–79 years (%)	10,3	4,1
80 years or more (%)	8,9	1,1

Table_epidemiology_control_PNI: This table shows epidemiological data of 60,422 lower extremity trauma patients with and without ascertained peripheral nerve injury. Supplementary to the mean age of both groups a further classification into 5 age bands was performed. Control group leg trauma patients without recorded nerve injury, PNI group leg trauma patients with accompanying nerve injury, SD standard deviation