[Retracted] Pattern and In-Hospital Mortality of Thoracoabdominal Injuries Associated with Motor Vehicle Accident-Related Spinal Injury: A Retrospective Single-Center Study

Table 2

Association between thoracoabdominal injuries and level of the spinal injury (n = 87).

Level of spinal injury	Thoracic injury (n = 58)		Abdominal injury (n = 22)		Both (n = 7)		Total (n = 87)		value^†
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Cervical	18	31.0	3	13.6	2	28.6	23	26.4	0.045
Thoracic	22	37.9	3	13.6	3	42.9	28	32.2
Lumbar	8	13.8	5	22.7	1	14.3	14	16.1
Sacral	3	5.2	6	27.3	1	14.3	10	11.5
Multiple levels	7	12.1	5	22.7	0	0.0	12	13.8

^†Based on the likelihood-ratio chi-square statistic.  < 0.05 is significant.