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Table 2 Etiology and mechanism of trauma

From: Damage to the eye and optic nerve in seriously traumatized patients with concomitant head injury: analysis of 84,627 cases from the TraumaRegister DGU® between 2002 and 2015

 

control group

VSI group

traffic accident_car (%)

18.8 (CI 18.5–19.1)

28.5 (CI 26.2–31.1)

traffic accident_motorbike (%)

9.1 (CI 8.9–9.3)

9.1 (CI 7.8–10.5)

traffic accident_bicycle (%)

11.7 (CI 11.5–12.0)

11.3 (CI 9.8–12.9)

traffic accident_pedestrian (%)

7.7 (CI 7.5–7.9)

6.8 (CI 5.6–8.0)

high fall > 3 m (%)

15.3 (CI 15.1–15.6)

12.7 (CI 11.2–14.4)

low fall < 3 m (%)

27.9 (CI 27.5–28.3)

13.9 (CI 12.3–15.7)

punch (%)

3.0 (CI 2.8–3.1)

6.5 (CI 5.4–7.8)

shot (%)

0.3 (CI 0.3–0.4)

1.2 (CI 0.7–1.8)

stab (%)

0.3 (CI 0.2–0.3)

0.8 (CI 0.4–1.3)

other reason (%)

5.9 (CI 5.8–6.1)

9.2 (CI 8.0–10.8)

blunt trauma (%)

97.8 (CI 97.1–98.5)

92.9 (CI 88.6–97.4)

penetrating trauma (%)

2.2 (CI 2.1–2.3)

7.1 (CI 5.9–8.4)

  1. Comparison between head trauma cases ± additional prechiasmatic visual system injury (VSI) regarding trauma etiology and underlying mechanism. CI 95% confidence interval