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Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2010 Aug 7;18(11):1408–1416. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2010.07.012

Table 6.

Cartilage and Meniscus T2 stratified by posterior horn medial meniscal grade.

	CARTILAGE T2 (ms)				MENISCUS T2 (ms)
	LFC	MFC	LT	MT	AHLAT	PHLAT	AHMED	PHMED
Meniscus Grade 0 (n=23)
Mean	32.63	32.14	27.73	28.14	10.78	10.42	11.18	11.26
SD	2.94	3.35	4.53	4.03	2.40	1.45	1.88	1.51
Mensicus Grade 1 (n= 17)
Mean	33.24	33.34	27.87	27.41	11.96	12.06^*	11.81	13.51
SD	2.61	2.43	4.99	2.72	3.40	2.77	1.69	2.53
p-value (vs. grade 0)				0.873		0.048		0.073
Meniscus grades 2– 4 (n=23)
Mean	33.14	32.98	30.06	33.08^*^#	12.85	12.03^*	12.36	17.89^*^#
SD	2.76	6.04	4.81	5.82	3.91	2.12	2.09	4.51
p-value (vs. grade 0)				0.001		0.035		<0.001
p-value (vs. grade 1)				<0.001		1.00		<0.001
ANOVA Prob > F	0.751	0.667	0.197	<0.001	0.122	0.019	0.125	<0.001

Significantly different than meniscal grade 0 (p<0.05).

Significantly different than meniscal grade 1 (p<0.05).

LFC=lateral femoral condyle; MFC=medial femoral condyle; LT=lateral tibia; MT=medial tibia; AHLAT=anterior horn lateral meniscus; PHLAT=posterior horn lateral meniscus; AHMED=anterior horn medial meniscus; PHMED=posterior horn medial meniscus; SD= standard deviation.