Multiple injuries after earthquakes: a retrospective analysis on 1,871 injured patients from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Table 3 Most frequent combinations of injury diagnoses by body region in 856 two-injury patients.

Associated body regions	n (%)
Single body region
Head	112 (13.1)
Thorax	61 (7.1)
Knee-lower leg	45 (5.3)
Ankle-foot	27 (3.2)
Abdomen	14 (1.6)
Pelvis	9 (1.1)
Multiple body regions
Head, knee-lower leg	52 (6.1)
Head, NOS	44 (5.1)
Knee-lower leg, ankle-foot†	27 (3.2)
Knee-lower leg, NOS	24 (2.8)
Head, thorax	23 (2.7)
Hip-thigh, knee-lower leg†	23 (2.7)
Lower back, knee-lower leg	23 (2.7)
Thorax, knee-lower leg	22 (2.6)
Thorax, lower back†	20 (2.3)
Thorax, NOS	20 (2.3)
Head, lower back	17 (2.0)
Shoulder-upper arm, knee-lower leg	17 (2.0)
Head, hip-thigh	12 (1.4)
Head, pelvis	9 (1.1)
Thorax, shoulder-upper arm†	9 (1.1)
Shoulder-upper arm, NOS	9 (1.1)

* Includes injury combinations accounting for more than one percent of the sample. † Indicates neighboring body regions. IDs, injury diagnoses; PHDC, People's Hospital of Deyang city; NOS, not otherwise specified.

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