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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Patients excluded from the study and the cause of exclusion

From: Effect of bioactive coating of the tibial component on migration pattern in uncemented total knee arthroplasty: a randomized RSA study of 14 knees presented according to new RSA-guidelines

Patient

Cause of exclusion from the study

1

Femoral fracture (patient was reoperated).

2, 3

Too few tantalum bone markers in tibia. Knee calibration cage in wrong position.

4

Too few tantalum markers in the tibia component.

5

Condition number and rigid body error too high in both segments.

6, 7, 8

Postoperative RSA-images lost in X-ray archive.

9

Postoperative and 3-month RSA-images lost in X-ray archive.