Table 1.
Demographic data
| Characteristics | Total (n = 26) |
Group A (n = 12) |
Group B (n = 14) |
p-value‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Sex† | 6 (23.1) | 2 (16.7) | 4 (28.6) | n.s. |
| Age in years§ | 35.2 ± 12.3 | 35.3 ± 11.2 | 35.2 ± 14.0 | n.s. |
| Left Knee† | 17 (65.4) | 10 (83.3) | 7 (50.0) | n.s. |
| BMI > 30 kg/m2† | 5 (19.2) | 2 (16.7) | 3 (21.4) | n.s. |
| Time to surgery, in days§ | 877 ± 1579 | 1247 ± 2127 | 508 ± 625 | n.s. |
| Follow-up, in months§ | 14.9 ± 7.2 | 13.7 ± 3.2 | 15.6 ± 10.0 | n.s. |
| Duration of surgery, in min§ | 160.6 ± 44.3 | 139.8 ± 31.8 | 183.2 ± 45.8 | 0.0109 |
| Hospitalization, in days§ | 5.3 ± 1.3 | 5.2 ± 1.4 | 5.5 ± 1.3 | n.s. |
| Concomitant injuries† | n.s. | |||
| • Meniscal lesions | 2 (8.0) | 0 | 2 (53.8) | |
| • Cartilage damage | 2 (8.0) | 2 (16.7) | 0 |
n = 26; § mean ± SD; † n (in %); ‡ Shapiro–Wilk normality test and Kolmogorov–Smirnov test were performed to determine if the data were normally distributed, To compare both groups Student`s t-Test or Mann-Whitney U-Test were performed, Fisher’s exact test was used for comparison of binominal data; bold p value indicates statistical significance; SD standard deviation