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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Bone measurements at macroscopic and microscopic level

From: Hydroxyapatite and demineralized calf fetal growth plate effects on bone healing in rabbit model

Bone type evaluation

Median (min–max)

P a

Hydroxyapatite group (n = 5)

Hydroxyapatite–DCFGP group (n = 5)

DCFGP group (n = 5)

 

Macroscopic uniona

3 (2–2)

3 (2–3)

2 (2–2)

0.1

Microscopic evaluationb

6 (4–7)

7 (5–7)

5 (4–7)

0.1

  1. aComplete union (+3 score), presence of cartilage, soft tissue or cracks within the defect indicating a possible unstable union (+ 1 or +2 score), complete instability at the defect site indicating nonunion (0 score)
  2. bEmpty (0 score), fibrous tissue only (1 score), more fibrous tissue than fibrocartilage (2 score), more fibrocartilage than fibrous tissue (3 score), fibrocartilage only (4 score), more fibrocartilage than bone (5 score), more bone than fibrocartilage (6 score) and bone only (7 score)
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