Risk factors analysis in humeral condyle fractures in the dog: retrospective study

The purpose of this study is to underline any possible risk factors about the pathogenesis of humeral condyle fracture through a retrospective analysis of all 12,220 dogs presented to our Section of Surgery and Emergency Care be-tween 1987 and 2003 and a comparison of our data with those reported in lit-erature. In this report, HCF was more frequent in hunting, adult, male dogs: they repre-sented 44.90% (44 of 98) of all the dogs with HCF, whereas only 22.31% (2,726 of 12,220) of general population. Non hunting dogs represented 55.10% (54 of 98) of dogs with HCF and 77.69% (9,494 on 12,220) of the general population. Hunting dogs had a frequency of HCF of 1.61% (44 on 2,726), the other groups of 0.57% (54 of 9,494). The difference between the two groups of attitude was significant (Fisher's test, p