Table 7.

Size of tear

Size of tear	Number of papers	Percentage of papers	References
Reported as small, medium, large, or massive	49	44%	[1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45–47, 50, 52–55, 58, 59, 61–63, 65–68, 70–72, 75, 77–79, 81, 82, 96, 97]
Average size reported	17	20%	[7, 12, 15, 20, 29, 31, 39, 48, 54–56, 59, 63, 74, 83, 84, 87]
Only number of tendons reported	9	10%	[4, 8, 16, 33, 60, 63, 80, 86, 89]
Size reported in a range	8	9%	[19, 27, 30, 51, 74, 83, 89, 93]
Other size scale reported	4	5%	[9, 10, 42, 69]
Not reported	10	12%	[6, 17, 24, 57, 64, 73, 89–91, 94, 95]