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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Surg. 2010 Jan;45(1):52–58. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.10.010

Table 3.

Histologic scoring of the 2 study groups

Group Morphology
score (0–4)		 Muscle fiber
degeneration
(0–4)		 Blood vessel
in-growth
(0–2)		 Mean number of
blood vessels
per HPF		 Mean number
of muscle fibers
per HPF		 Mean fiber
diameter
(µm)		 Total
score
(0–10)
FGF-2 3.0 ± 0.7** 3.4 ± 0.6 1.6 ± 0.5 5.6 ± 2.0* 5.0 ± 0.3** 32.0 ± 5.7** 8.0 ± 1.6*
Control 1.2 ± 0.8 2.0 ± 0.7 0.2 ± 0.4 1.2 ± 0.4 2.6 ± 0.5 20.0 ± 5.0 3.4 ± 1.8

Result was given as the mean ± SD.

*

P < .01.

**

P < .05 using paired t test.