Table 5.
Variable | Control tendons (N = 10) | Ruptured tendons (N = 88 ) | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Tenocytes | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 51 |
Ground substance | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 34 | 28 |
Collagen | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 38 | 45 |
Vascularity | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 53 |