Table 3.

Histomorphometric tissue fractions of physealhealing in the gaps according to material deposition.

Group	Cartilage tissue %	Bone %	Fibrous tissue %	Fat %	Empty* (%)	Total
Group A
Fat grafted gap	14.98 (8.79; 21.17)	40.73 (29.48; 51.96)	16.72 (5.49; 27.94)	0 (0; 0)	27.57 (12.97; 42.18)	100
Empty gap	16.04 (9.83; 22.24)	45.83 (22.60; 69.07)	38.13 (18.08; 58.18)	0 (0; 0)	0 (0; 0)	100
p-value**	0.81	0.64	0.04	N/A	0.01
Group B
Autologous cartilage and Tisseel®	63.54 (51.46; 75.42)	12.02 (4.08; 19.95)	19.93 (12.71; 27.03)	4.49 (–1.07; 10.03)	0.02 (–0.2; 0.06)	100
Tisseel®	45.60 (34.40; 56.81)	7.43 (3.39; 11.49)	43.57 (32.84; 54.28)	3.40 (–1.72; 8.52)	0 (0; 0)	100
p-value**	0.03	0.3	0.01	0.77	0.33

Note. Values are reported as means with corresponding 95% confidence intervals.

^*These fractions represent the areas with empty space without cells

^**t-test