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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Correlations among serum and joint fluid interleukin-6 levels and the Knee Society Score at each time point

From: Alteration of inflammatory cytokine production in primary total knee arthroplasty using antibiotic-loaded bone cement

Postoperation

 

SIL-6

JIL-6

24 h

72 h

24 h

ρ

p

ρ

p

ρ

p

4 weeks

KSSK

0.19

0.24

0.13

0.44

<0.001

0.99

KSSF

0.07

0.69

0.002

0.99

−0.34

0.05

Recent evaluation

KSSK

−0.02

0.89

−0.09

0.61

0.12

0.49

KSSF

0.10

0.55

0.18

0.29

0.15

0.39

  1. JIL-6 joint fluid interleukin-6, KSSF Knee Society Score-function score, KSSK Knee Society Score-knee score, SIL-6 serum interleukin-6, ρ Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
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