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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Metha™ group: results of Dexa

From: A prospective randomized radiographic and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometric study of migration and bone remodeling after implantation of two modern short-stemmed femoral prostheses

Gruen zone

Postoperative g/cm2 (SD)

FU 1 g/cm2 (SD)

FU 2 g/cm2 (SD)

1

0.86 (0.23)

0.79 (0.26)p=0.001

0.79 (0.27)p=0.004

2

1.36 (0.26)

1.42 (0.3)#

1.31 (0.34)#

3

2.22 (0.33)

2.24 (0.33)#

2.13 (0.36)#

4

2.08 (0.35)

2.07 (0.32)#

2.03 (0.36)#

5

1.92 (0.48)

1.94 (0.31)#

1.92 (0.3)#

6

1.5 (0.33)

1.49 (0.31)#

1.62 (0.35)p=0.012

7

1.28 (0.3)

1.13 (0.28)p=0.004

1.14 (0.28)#

  1. SD = standard deviation
  2. # Not significant (paired t-test, p > 0.05)