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. 2022 Oct 15;23:50. doi: 10.1186/s10195-022-00670-7

Table 2.

Intraobserver reliability (Pearson's or Spearman's correlation according to the normality of the data distribution and Cronbach's alpha) for the 2D and 3D measurements

Intraobserver reliability Pearson’s correlation index Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient Cronbach's alpha
Observer 1 Observer 2 Observer 1 Observer 2 Observer 1 Observer 2
r p-Value r p-Value rho p-Value rho p-Value Alpha IC95% Alpha IC95%
2D measurements
 Transepicondylar distance (TD) 0.989  < 0.0001 0.992  < 0.0001 0.9942 0.9906 0.9946 0.9913
 Medial femoral condyle AP dimension 0.8989  < 0.0001 0.9321  < 0.0001 0.9468 0.9144 0.9649 0.9436
 Lateral femoral condyle AP dimension 0.9715  < 0.0001 0.8697  < 0.0001 0.9856 0.9768 0.9303 0.8880
 Proximal tibia ML dimension 0.967  < 0.0001 0.925  < 0.0001 0.9835 0.9735 0.9369 0.8986
 Medial tibial plateau AP dimension 0.8525  < 0.0001 0.8250  < 0.0001 0.9204 0.8721 0.9041 0.8458
 Lateral tibial plateau AP dimension 0.913  < 0.0001 0.904  < 0.0001 0.9087 0.8533 0.9514 0.9219
 Tibial PCL insertion-trochlearcartilage distance 0.9549  < 0.0001 0.9515  < 0.0001 0.9769 0.9629 0.9752 0.9601
 Patellar tendon length 0.8236  < 0.0001 0.735  < 0.0001 0.8925 0.8273 0.9033 0.8445
3D measurements
 Intrarticular length of ACL graft 0.6103  < 0.0001 0.7075  < 0.0001 0.758 0.6111 0.8287 0.7246
 Outside-in femoral tunnel length 0.8221  < 0.0001 0.915  < 0.0001 0.9023 0.843 0.9433 0.9089
 Outside-in anatomic ACL reconstruction 0.8918  < 0.0001 0.869  < 0.0001 0.9428 0.9081 0.9206 0.8723
 Saragaglia/Yamaguchi techniques 0.8654  < 0.0001 0.7654  < 0.0001 0.9278 0.884 0.7699 0.6302
 Anatomic anterolateral ligament reconstruction 0.6953  < 0.0001 0.2675 0.0603 0.8202 0.7111 0.4221 0.0712
 Lateral extrarticular tenodesis (anatomical femur) 0.6911  < 0.0001 0.2834 0.0461 0.8173 0.7064 0.4282 0.1025
 Lateral extrarticular tenodesis (non-anatomical femur) 0.5914  < 0.0001 0.6043  < 0.0001 0.7432 0.5973 0.7533 0.6035
 Over the top femoral position ACL reconstruction 0.7718  < 0.0001 0.7601  < 0.0001 0.8712 0.793 0.8637 0.7809
 Marcacci technique 0.859  < 0.0001 0.800  < 0.0001 0.8180 0.7075 0.8823 0.8108

AP anteroposterior, ML mediolateral, PCL posterior cruciate ligament, ACL anterior cruciate ligament