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Table 5 Previous reports and this study on the distance between the posterior cortex and the popliteal artery in the osteotomy plane

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

Author (year)

Method (number of subjects)

Osteotomy technique

Distance between posterior cortex and popliteal artery

Bisicchia et al. (2015)

Contrast-enhanced CT (six cadavers)

OWHTO

9.6 ± 2.1 mm

Kang et al. (2020)

Contrast-enhanced CT (45 patients)

OWHTO

15 mm (99% CI 9–21)

Choi et al. (2019)

MRI–CT matching model MRI (16 patients)

Contrast-enhanced CT (52 subjects)

OWHTO

13.0 ± 2.0 mm

This study

Contrast-enhanced CT (20 patients)

OWHTO

Hybrid CWHTO

10.8 ± 2.5 mm

10.3 ± 2.3 mm

  1. OWHTO open-wedge high tibial osteotomy, Hybrid CWHTO hybrid closed-wedge high tibial osteotomy, CT computed tomography, MRI magnetic resonance imaging