Table 2.

Infrapatellar fat pad adipocytes morphometric analysis.

IFPa adipocytes	ACLb patients	Cadavers	p-value
	(n = 24)	(n = 23)
Area (μm2), mean (range)	1,879.20 (895.94–3,699.15)	3,271.49 (1,801.09–5,339.36)	<0.0001
Major axis (μm), mean (range)	54.47 (39.22–78.56)	73.82 (54.90–100.31)	<0.0001
Minor axis (μm), mean (range)	41.21 (27.20–60.27)	54.66 (39.92–66.98)	<0.0001
Eccentricity, mean (range)	0.65 (0.50–0.75)	0.66 (0.45–0.78)	0.835
Perimeter (μm), mean (range)	158.7 (114.5–234.1)	220.2 (151.3–288.1)	<0.0001
Diameter (μm), mean (range)	46.41 (32.77–67.90)	63.54 (41.77–80.14)	<0.0001
Volume (μm3), mean (range)	60,011 (18,480–164,353)	144,981 (38,267–270,228)	<0.0001

^aIFP, infrapatellar fat pad;

^bACL, anterior cruciate ligament.