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Table 1 Patient demographics and radiologic evaluation

From: Quadriceps muscle volume has no effect on patellofemoral cartilage lesions in patients with end-stage knee osteoarthritis

 

No PF cartilage lesion (N = 100)

Advanced PF cartilage lesion (N = 104)

p-Value

ICC

 

Average

SD

Average

SD

 

Age (years)

72.9

5.4

74.3

4.9

0.061

 

Height (cm)

156.8

8.4

158.1

7.8

0.289

 

Weight (kg)

64.8

10.9

67.2

10.3

0.100

 

HKA angle

9.0

4.7

7.4

4.8

0.020

0.92

Insall–Salvati ratio

1.1

0.1

1.1

0.2

0.515

0.84

Q-angle

−0.9

4.8

−1.5

4.3

0.304

0.82

Q-muscle area (mm2)

2519.2

650.4

2568.2

638.9

0.595

0.91

Femur area (mm2)

801.1

138.6

893.3

574.1

0.127

0.92

Q-muscle thickness: medial (mm)

20.9

5.5

21.6

6.7

0.447

0.93

Q-muscle thickness: anterior(mm)

11.4

4.1

11.2

3.3

0.760

0.88

Q-muscle thickness: lateral (mm)

17.7

4.9

19.0

10.6

0.290

0.91

Femur width (mm)

35.5

4.0

36.2

3.4

0.191

0.89

  1. HKA hip–knee–ankle, Q-muscle quadriceps muscle, PF patellofemoral, SD standard deviation, OA osteoarthritis, ICC intraclass correlation coefficient