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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Nanos™ 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

0.91 (0.18)

0.83 (0.17)p=0.001

0.80 (0.17)p=0.005

2

1.53 (0.32)

1.52 (0.28)#

1.48 (0.23)#

3

2.26 (0.28)

2.23 (0.25)#

2.27 (0.26)#

4

2.14 (0.27)

2.15 (0.36#

2.14 (0.4)#

5

2.17 (0.24)

2.14 (0.38)#

2.15 (0.3)#

6

1.59 (0.3)

1.59 (0.42)#

1.57 (0.37)#

7

1.44 (0.2)

1.31 (0.3)p=0.02

1.37 (0.3)#

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