Table 2.
Summary of the radiologic results
| Case | Lichtman’s stage | CHR | Stahl index | Nakamura’s score | Mayo wrist score | MRI | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-op | Post-op | Pre-op | Post-op | Pre-op | Post-op | ||||
| 1 | IIIb | IIIb | 0.46 | 0.51 | 0.20 | 0.22 | Good | Good | I |
| 2 | II | IIIa | 0.56 | 0.55 | 0.43 | 0.44 | Excellent | Good | I |
| 3 | II | IIIa | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.43 | 0.33 | Good | Excellent | I |
| 4 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.50 | 0.51 | 0.41 | 0.40 | Good | Excellent | I |
| 5 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.58 | 0.53 | 0.47 | 0.33 | Good | Fair | U |
| 6 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.26 | Excellent | Excellent | I |
| 7 | II | IIIb | 0.55 | 0.55 | 0.36 | 0.28 | Good | Excellent | U |
| 8 | IIIa | IIIb | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.35 | 0.27 | Good | Good | I |
| 9 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.60 | 0.48 | 0.33 | 0.24 | Good | Fair | U |
| 10 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.53 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 0.42 | Good | Excellent | I |
| 11 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.59 | 0.48 | 0.40 | 0.45 | Fair | Poor | U |
| 12 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.53 | 0.53 | 0.40 | 0.32 | Fair | Poor | U |
| 13 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.49 | 0.47 | 0.37 | 0.33 | Good | Fair | I |
| 14 | IIIb | IIIb | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.31 | 0.28 | Fair | Fair | U |
| 15 | II | IIIa | 0.57 | 0.60 | 0.47 | 0.42 | Good | Excellent | I |
| 16 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.64 | 0.63 | 0.42 | 0.27 | Excellent | Excellent | I |
| 17 | IIIa | IIIa | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.33 | 0.26 | Excellent | Excellent | I |
| 18 | IIIb | IIIb | 0.49 | 0.47 | 0.35 | 0.35 | Good | Good | U |
| Mean (and SD) | 0.53 ± 0.05 | 0.51 ± 0.04 | 0.38 ± 0.06 | 0.32 ± 0.07 | |||||
| p values | 0.046 | 0.001 | |||||||
I improved, U unchanged