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Table 1 The distance between the posterior cortex of the tibia and the popliteal artery in the osteotomy planes for open-wedge high tibial osteotomy and hybrid closed-wedge high tibial wedge osteotomy

From: Analysis of popliteal artery location for high tibial and distal tuberosity osteotomy using contrast-enhanced computed tomography

 

OWHTO

Hybrid CWHTO

Statistics

dPC-PA (mm)

10.8 ± 2.4 (6.9–16.5)

10.3 ± 2.2 (7.3–15.4)

n.s.

  1. OWHTO open-wedge high tibial osteotomy, CWHTO closed-wedge high tibial osteotomy, dPC-PA distance between the posterior cortex of the tibia and the popliteal artery. Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation (range). n.s. no statistically significant difference
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Knee Surgery & Related Research

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