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Civilian or military Military (soldier) Military (Serviceman) Fighter (likely military or paramilitary) Military personnel Civilian Active-duty military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Military personnel NA NA Military (combat injury) Mostly military (combat injuries in 58 patients), some civilian (peacetime injuries in 8 patients, thermal injuries in 2 patients) Not mentioned, but sustained injury from a mine blast (possibly

Sex All male (n=19) NA All male (n=24) All male (n=34) 8 men, 2 women All male (n=68) 2021: Men=1,309 Men=2,215 (57.7%) All male (n=39)
Male Male Male Male Male Male Male (52.9%) 2022–2023:

Age, y 24 28 26 (average 36.2) Patients categorized classification; most affected group: 61–75 (27.7%) 33.4 (SD 9.3) 27.6 (SD 16.7) 50 26 19–40 36 38
24–52 by WHO Mean 33.8 ~52 (SD 1) 21–49 (mean 29.7)

No. of patients included or surgical procedures or medical staff 1 1 1 19 patients underwent shoulder joint arthrodesis 137 24 34 10 patients included, mean of 3.3 surgical procedures per patient 1 1 68 1 One patient; 17 surgeries 2,475 patients treated in 2021 (comparative group) 3,838 patients treated from March 2022 to March 2023 (main group) Increase in number of patients by 55.07% 39 patients (29 in the main group, 10 in the co

Duration of study NA NA NA Study conducted from May 2022 to December 2023, with an observation period of 18 mo 2014–2023 February 24, 2022, to January 1, 2023 2023–2024 24 February 2022 to 24 February 2023 Single case observation, patient was hospitalized for 3 days 28 months of follow-up Not explicitly stated, but the amputation surgeries were performed up to 2, 5, and over 5 years ago, with follow-up evaluations at 12 months pos

TABLE 1 Study Characteristics and Patients’ Demographics
Setting (site, country) Military field hospital, Ukraine Military Medical Clinical Center of the Central Region, Ukraine Healthcare facilities in the frontline Military hospital (Level IV), various Military Medical Clinical Center of the Western Region (ВМКЦ ЗР), Treated in a center (Germany) for Surgical department of a Level II accredited hospital, Ukraine Scientific and Research Institute of Rehabilitation, National Pirogov Memorial Med

Ukraine Ukraine zone, Ukraine areas of Ukraine Ukraine patients from Ukraine Vinnytsia, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine the Netherlands Hospital,” Ukraine

Study design Case report Case report Case report Retrospective observational study Retrospective observational study Descriptive study Cohort study Retrospective observational study Case report Case report Retrospective observational study Case report Case report Retrospective analysis Case-control study

First author, year Bezsmertnyi, 2025 Bezsmertnyi, 2024 (a) Bezsmertnyi, 2024 (b) Bondarenko, 2024 Guryev, 2024 Lurin, 2024 Netliukh 2024 Prangenberg, 2024 Riga, 2024 Shevchuk, 2024 (a) Shevchuk, 2024 (b) Shevchuk, 2024 (c) Smits, 2024 Trutyak, 2024 Yarmoliuk, 2024

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