Clinical trial and in-vitro study comparing the efficacy of treating bony lesions with allografts versus synthetic or highly-processed xenogeneic bone grafts

Table 4 Bone healing and complications within different locations

	Consolidation yes/no		N	P	Complication yes/no		N	P
	Cancellous	Synthetic	N	P	Cancellous	Synthetic	N	P
Humerus	10/0	8/1	19	n.s.^a	5/7	5/5	22	n.s.^a
Forearm	4/0	10/0	14	n.s.^a	0/4	1/10	15	n.s.^a
Femur	24/3	3/0	30	n.s.^a	5/22	0/3	30	n.s.^a
Tibia	9/1	31/1	42	n.s.^a	3/7	5/29	44	n.s.^a
Spine	0/1	44/0	45	n.s.^a	1/0	2/45	48	n.s.^a
Pelvis	47/1	3/0	51	n.s.^a	2/50	0/3	55	n.s.^a
Foot	10/0	8/0	18	n.s.^a	1/9	3/5	18	n.s.^a

Number of complications and consolidation rates dependent on the group of applied bone substitutes, n.s. not significant, ^a χ ²-Test

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