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. 2020 Oct 5;10:16520. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73595-y

Table 1.

Cumulative incidence of serious local complications within 30 and 90 days of all DD surgery in 150,833a observations at risk.

Complication No. of events Cumulative incidence (% (95% CI))
Surgical site infection (SSI)
30 days 51 0.03 (0.02–0.04)
90 days 59 0.04 (0.03–0.03)
Wound dehiscence (WD)
30 days 76 0.05 (0.04–0.06)
90 days 79 0.05 (0.04–0.06)
Wound complications (SSI and WD)
30 days 127 0.08 (0.06–0.10)
90 days 138 0.09 (0.07–0.09)
Neurovascular injury
30 days 598 0.40 (0.36–0.43)
90 days 604 0.40 (0.37–0.43)
Tendon injury
30 days 21 0.01 (0.01–0.02)
90 days 23 0.02 (0.01–0.02)
Finger amputation
30 days 764 0.51 (0.47–0.54)
90 days 837 0.55 (0.52–0.59)
Any local complication
30 days 1,637 1.09 (1.03–1.14)
90 days 1,740 1.15 (1.10–1.21)

aDenominator after excluding operations with missing laterality code & those with < 90 days postoperative follow up = 7286/158,119 (4.6%).