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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Results of the outcome: laxity

From: All-epiphyseal anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction yields superior sports performances than the trans-epiphyseal technique in skeletally immature patients: a systematic review

Endpoint

All-epiphyseal (N = 918)

Trans-epiphyseal (N = 575)

Effect size

P

Positive pivot shift test (%)

0.1 ± 0.1

0.2 ± 0.4

−0.1

0.4

Arthrometer laxity (mean)

2.2 ± 1.6

1.4 ± 0.7

0.8

0.1

• Positive Lachman test (%)

0.2 ± 0.3

0.4 ± 0.5

−0.2

0.3