Table 3.

Patients with trauma frame that develop deep infection

Patient No	Sex	Age	Site of fracture	AO classification of fracture	Type of frame	Open fracture	Use of internal fixation	Use of bone augment	Duration of frame (days)	Date of diagnosis of deep infection from removal of frame (days)
1	M	21	Ankle pilon	43 C3	Ilizarov	No	Yes	No	96	259
2	F	65	Ankle pilon	43 C3	TrueLok Hexapod	Yes	Yes	Yes	393	−286*
3	M	24	Tibial shaft	42 B2	TrueLok Hexapod	Yes	No	No	138	232
4	F	63	Tibial plateau	41 C3	Ilizarov	No	Yes	No	132	601
5	M	71	Tibial plateau	41 C3	Taylor Spatial Frame	No	Yes	Yes	146	6
6	F	54	Tibial plateau	41 C3	Ilizarov	No	Yes	Yes	118	63
7	M	45	Ankle pilon	43 C3	Ilizarov	No	Yes	Yes	262	65
8	M	38	Tibial plateau	41 C3	Taylor Spatial Frame	No	Yes	Yes	197	104
9	M	52	Tibial plateau	41 C3	TrueLok Hexapod	No	Yes	Yes	157	−129*
10	M	61	Tibial plateau	41 C3	Taylor Spatial Frame	Yes	Yes	No	119	208
11	F	53	Tibial plateau	41 C2	Ilizarov	No	Yes	Yes	87	−3*
12	M	35	Ankle pilon	43 C2	Taylor Spatial Frame	Yes	Yes	No	346	247
13	F	71	Tibial plateau	41 C3	TrueLok Hexapod	No	Yes	Yes	195	−42*

^*Infection occurred before the frame was removed; hence, negative