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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Modified Lane and Sandhu radiological scoring system

From: Effectiveness of synthetic hydroxyapatite versus Persian Gulf coral in an animal model of long bone defect reconstruction

Bone formation

 No evidence of bone formation

0

 Bone formation occupying 25 % of the defect

1

 Bone formation occupying 50 % of the defect

2

 Bone formation occupying 75 % of the defect

3

 Bone formation occupying 100 % of the defect

4

Union (proximal and distal evaluated separately)

 No union

0

 Possible union

1

 Radiographic union

2

Remodeling

 No evidence of remodeling

0

 Remodeling of medullary canal

1

 Full remodeling of cortex

2

Total points possible per category

 Bone formation

4

 Proximal union

2

 Distal union

2

 Remodeling

2

Maximum score

10