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Flow diagram of the allocation of patients in the patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) group and the conventional operation (CO) group. In the blinded study design, the senior doctors and their team, who classified cases and evaluated results, were unaware of the specific operating procedures and grouping of the patients throughout the study.
