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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Comparison between the values preoperatively and at last follow-up of the LLD and AOFAS score

From: Functional and radiological outcomes after treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia using the Ilizarov technique: a retrospective single-center study

 

Preoperative

Last follow-up

Z

P

LLD (cm)

 Mean ± SD

3.6 ± 1.9

− 1.5 ± 2.8

3.469

 < 0.001

 Median (min–max)

3 (1–9)

− 1 (− 10 to 3)

AOFAS score

 Mean ± SD

47.5 ± 7.6

79.8 ± 8.9

3.523

 < 0.001

 Median (min–max)

44 (38–65)

82.5 (56–96)

  1. Z is from the Wilcoxon signed rank test
  2. SD standard deviation