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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2014 Jan 16;72(9):1773–1787. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2014.01.004

Table 4.

Digastric muscle semiquantitative analysis

Group Pathologist
Score		 Percent
Abnormal		 Inflammation Fibrosis Size
Variability		 Moth-
Eaten
Fibers		 Necrosis Edema Atrophy Group
AVG
Group A 0 Normal 20/20 20/20 19/20 18/20 20/20 0/20 14/20 0.31
  1.5mm/day 1 <5 0/20 0/20 0/20 2/20 0/20 9/20 5/20
2 5–50 0/20 0/20 1/20 0/20 0/20 9/20 1/20
3 >50 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 2/20 0/20
Group B 0 Normal 17/20 18/20 20/20 19/20 20/20 0/20 15/20 0.27
  3.0mm/day 1 <5 3/20 2/20 0/20 1/20 0/20 13/20 5/20
2 5–50 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 7/20 0/20
3 >50 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20 0/20
Contralateral 0 Normal 8/8 8/8 8/8 7/8 8/8 0/8 7/8 0.27
1 <5 0/8 0/8 0/8 1/8 0/8 4/8 1/8
2 5–50 0/8 0/8 0/8 0/8 0/8 3/8 0/8
3 >50 0/8 0/8 0/8 0/8 0/8 1/8 0/8