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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Comparison of all 71 patients for re-rupture, Lachman test, pivot shift test, anterior drawer test, KT1000 test, objective IKDC, subjective IKDC, Lysholm score: patients with ≤1.5 cm of graft within the femoral tunnel versus >2.5 cm

From: The influence of femoral tunnel length on graft rupture after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

 

≤1.5 cm

>2.5 cm

p

Re-rupture

1 (4)

3 (31)

0.399 (Fisher’s test)

Lachman test

   

 Normal

2

24

 Abnormal

2

7

 Total

4

31

0.268 (Fisher’s test)

Pivot shift test

   

 Normal

2

25

 Abnormal

2

6

 Total

4

31

0.218 (Fisher’s test)

Anterior drawer test

   

 Normal

2

23

 Abnormal

2

8

 Total

4

31

0.561 (Fisher’s test)

KT-1000 test

1.63

1.31

0.958 (Mann–Whitney test)

Objective IKDC

   

 A

2

23

 B, C, e D

2

8

 Total

4

31

0.561 (Fisher’s test)

Subjective IKDC

93.25

90

0.480 (Mann–Whitney test)

Lysholm score

92.5

90.45

0.567 (Mann–Whitney test)