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Table 4 Analyses of colon trauma severity by Colon Injury Scale in relation to hollow-point bullets or shape-stable bullets injury

From: Gunshot injury to the colon by expanding bullets in combat patients wounded in hybrid period of the Russian-Ukrainian war during 2014–2020

Colon Injury Scale (CIS) parameters

Grouping of patients

All wounded n = 112

p value

Injured by Shape-stable bullets n = 69

Injured by Hollow-point bullets n = 43

CIS stage

I

28 (40.6%)

0 (0.0%)

28 (25.0%)

 < 0.0001

II

31 (44.9%)

23 (53.5%)

54 (48.2%)

0.38

III

7 (10.1%)

11 (25.6%)

18 (16.1%)

0.031

IV

2 (2.9%)

7 (16.3%)

9 (8.0%)

0.011

V

1 (1.4%)

2 (4.7%)

3 (2.7%)

0.31