Table 3.

Cartilage thickness in knee compartments and respective sub-compartments in patients after ACL reconstruction.

	Knee
	Injured	Uninjured
LFC (whole)	1.4 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5*
LFC
− 1	1.4 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.5
− 2	0.8 ± 0.3	1.0 ± 0.3
− 3	1.1 ± 0.4	1.2 ± 0.4
− 4	1.5 ± 0.6	1.5 ± 0.6
− 5	1.3 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5
LT (whole)	1.9 ± 0.9	2.0 ± 1.0*
LT
− 1	1.1 ± 0.6	1.2 ± 0.5*
− 2	2.0 ± 0.8	2.1 ± 0.7
− 3	1.5 ± 0.8	1.7 ± 0.9*
MFC (whole)	1.4 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5
MFC
− 1	0.6 ± 0.4	0.7 ± 0.4
− 2	0.8 ± 0.4	0.9 ± 0.4
− 3	1.2 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.5*
− 4	1.3 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.4
− 5	1.4 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.5
MT (whole)	1.2 ± 0.5	1.2 ± 0.5
MT
− 1	0.7 ± 0.4	0.8 ± 0.4*
− 2	1.1 ± 0.4	1.3 ± 0.5*
− 3	0.9 ± 0.4	1.0 ± 0.4

All thickness measurements in millimeters

^*Denotes statistical significance, p<0.05.