. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2013 Jan 19;21(9):2029–2034. doi: 10.1007/s00167-013-2380-8

Table 3.

Incidence of associated intra-articular injury at ACL reconstruction

	Time from injury to reconstruction		Significance
	Less than 12 weeks	12 weeks or more	Significance
Median time from ACL injury to reconstruction	5.3 weeks	27.6 weeks	p < 0.0005
Medial Meniscus Tear Present	54/218 (24.8%)	36/91 (39.6%)	p = 0.013
Lateral Meniscus Tear Present	86/218 (39.4%)	32/91 (35.2%)	p = n.s.
Medial Compartment Cartilage Damage Present	36/216 (16.7%)	34/91 (37.4%	p < 0.0005
Lateral Compartment Cartilage Damage Present	48/215 (22.3%)	25/91 (24.2%)	p = n.s.
Patellofemoral Compartment Cartilage Damage Present	33/216 (15.3%)	25/91 (24.2%)	p = 0.016

n.s. = not significant