Table 3.
Injury details for patients undergoing non-operative, operative, and embolization management of splenic trauma.
| Parameter | Treatment Group* | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observation | Embolization | Operative | ||
| Number of observations | 169 (49.3) | 78 (22.7) | 96 (28.0) | --- |
| Traumatic brain injury | 61 (36.1)a,b | 23 (29.5)b | 48 (50.0)a | 0.015 |
| Spine injury | 47 (27.8)a,b | 13 (16.7)b | 36 (37.5)a | 0.010 |
| Pneumothorax | 47 (27.8)a,b | 17 (22.1)b | 39 (40.6)a | 0.018 |
| Hemothorax | 26 (15.4) | 5 (6.4) | 18 (18.8) | 0.058 |
| Rib fractures | 85 (50.3) | 33 (42.3) | 58 (60.4) | 0.055 |
| Grade of spleen injury† | 2 (1,3)a | 3 (3,4)b | 3 (2,4)b | < 0.001 |
| Liver injury | 27 (16.0)a,b | 4 (5.1)b | 26 (27.1)a | 0.001 |
| Grade of liver injury† | 2 (1,3) | 2 (1,n/a) | 3 (1,4) | 0.323 |
| Kidney injury | 23 (13.6)a,b | 3 (3.8)b | 20 (20.8)a | < 0.005 |
| Bladder injury | 2 (1.2) | 2 (2.6) | 1 (1.0) | 0.715 |
| Extremity injury | 61 (35.7)a | 27 (34.6)a | 56 (58.3)b | 0.001 |
| Vascular injury† | 14 (8.8) | 4 (5.3) | 3 (3.2) | 0.204 |
*
Data are presented as Number (%) or Median (interquartile range).
†
Missing values are present in the dataset.
a,b
Values within a row with different superscript letters are significant at the 0.05 level.