Table 3.
Analyses of colon injury by localizations and number of gunshot defects by shape-stable or hollow-point bullets
| Colon injury location | Grouping of patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injured by Shape-stable bullets n = 69 | Injured by Hollow-point bullets n = 43 | |||||
| Number of colon defects, n = | 2 | 3–4 | ≥ 5 | 2 | 3–4 | ≥ 5 |
| Cecum, n = | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ascending colon, n = | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Hepatic flexure, n = | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Transverse colon, n = | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Splenic flexure, n = | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Descending colon, n = | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 |
| Sigmoid colon, n = | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 22* (31.8%) | 0 | 0 | 21 (48.8%) | 18 (41.8%)** | 4 (9.3%)*** |
p-value: *0.0488, **0.0001, ***0.0199