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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 5 Radiographical findings for remodeling at various postoperative intervals

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

Postoperative days

Median (min–max)

P a

Control (n = 12)

Coral (n = 12)

Hydroxyapatite (n = 12)

14

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

1.0

28

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

0.4

42

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

0 (0–0)

1.0

56

0 (0–1)

1 (0–1)

1 (0–2)

0.1

  1. Significant P values are presented in bold
  2. aKruskal–Wallis nonparametric ANOVA