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. 2022 Sep 4;14(9):e28780. doi: 10.7759/cureus.28780

Table 2. Pearson correlation analysis between the femur length and other femoral parameters. The highest positive correlation exists between the head diameter with neck diameter. Femur length is positively correlated to a varying degree with head diameter, foveal depth, neck diameter, and neck thickness, where a statistically significant correlation can be understood by the respective p-value <0.05.

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Parameters Head diameter (mm)   Foveal depth (mm)   Foveal transverse diameter (mm)   Foveal longitudinal diameter (mm)   Neck diameter (mm)   Neck length (mm)   Neck thickness (mm)   Neck shaft angle Intertrochanteric line length (mm)     Femur length (in cm)  
Head diameter (mm)    r 1 0.213* 0.246* 0.324** 0.498** 0.046 0.250* -0.137 0.346** 0.327**
p   0.037 0.016 0.001 0 0.656 0.014 0.182 0.001 0.001
Foveal depth (mm)    r 0.213* 1 0.178 0.241* 0.295** 0.093 0.258* -0.099 0.11 0.239*
p 0.037   0.083 0.018 0.004 0.367 0.011 0.34 0.286 0.019
Foveal transverse diameter (mm)    r 0.246* 0.178 1 0.445** 0.216* -0.036 0.114 -0.031 0.274** 0.089
p 0.016 0.083   0 0.034 0.731 0.267 0.763 0.007 0.389
Foveal longitudinal diameter (mm)    r 0.324** 0.241* 0.445** 1 0.028 0.042 0.145 -0.11 0.255* -0.029
p 0.001 0.018 0   0.788 0.682 0.16 0.288 0.012 0.778
Neck diameter (mm)    r 0.498** 0.295** 0.216* 0.028 1 -0.014 0.292** -0.009 0.360** 0.231*
p 0 0.004 0.034 0.788   0.889 0.004 0.933 0 0.024
Neck length (mm)     r 0.046 0.093 -0.036 0.042 -0.014 1 0.222* 0.027 0.132 0.169
p 0.656 0.367 0.731 0.682 0.889   0.03 0.793 0.2 0.101
Neck thickness (mm)    r 0.250* 0.258* 0.114 0.145 0.292** 0.222* 1 -0.084 0.241* 0.222*
p 0.014 0.011 0.267 0.16 0.004 0.03   0.416 0.018 0.03
Neck shaft angle r -0.137 -0.099 -0.031 -0.11 -0.009 0.027 -0.084 1 0.039 0.186
p 0.182 0.34 0.763 0.288 0.933 0.793 0.416   0.705 0.07
Intertrochanteric line length (mm)   r 0.346** 0.11 0.274** 0.255* 0.360** 0.132 0.241* 0.039 1 0.163
p 0.001 0.286 0.007 0.012 0 0.2 0.018 0.705   0.112
Maximum Femur length (in cm)   r 0.327** 0.239* 0.089 -0.029 0.231* 0.169 0.222* 0.186 0.163 1
p 0.001 0.019 0.389 0.778 0.024 0.101 0.03 0.07 0.112