Surgical treatment for achilles tendinopathy – a systematic review

Table 1 Results of the reviewed literature for open and minimally invasive procedures

	Year	CMS	N	Age	FU	SR	PS	CR
Open techniques
Rolf et al. [4]	1997	60	58	40	25	75	n.s	13
Nelen et al. [24]	1989	66	91	30	48	85	n.s	7
Cottom et al. [29]	2008	81	62	61	27	n.s	95	23
Wilcox et al. [41]	2000	58	17	61	14	75	n.s	0
Martin et al. [37]	2005	84	44	58	41	91	86	11
Alfredson et al. [19]	2007	53	10	45	6	100	80	10
Lohrer & Nauck [32]	2014	81	34	50	12	97	n.s	8
Paavola et al. [18]	2002	59	42	42	7	83	87	6
Maffulli et al. [34]	2006	75	93	n.s	37	66	68	9
Maffulli et al. [35]	2008	75	86	n.s	40	73	69	10
Gurdezi et al. [31]	2013	70	5	45	30	n.s	66	n.s
		69.3 ± 10.7	542	45.6 ± 10.5	32.0 ± 14.6	78.9 ± 11.5	78.1 ± 11.3	10.5 ± 5.9
Minimally invasive techniques
Duthon et al. [30]	2011	64	14	42	24	79	60	0
Maquirriain [42]	2013	79	24	46	92	100	n.s	7
Lui [33]	2012	69	5	46	20	80	n.s	0
Thermann et al. [39]	2009	69	8	52	6	80	80	0
Maffulli et al. [28]	2013	84	39	45	204	77	77	18
Pearce et al. [26]	2011	62	11	37	30	n.s	72	0
Vega et al. [40]	2008	69	8	43	27	100	n.s	0
Alfredson [25]	2011	73	16	47	18	74	74	3
Ruergård & Alfredson [38]	2014	79	47	52	12	n.s	88	0
		72.0 ± 7.4	172	46.7 ± 4.7	70.0 ± 63.6	83.6 ± 10.9	78.5 ± 9.3	5.3 ± 6.1

Year of publication (Year), Coleman Methodological Score (CMS), Number of patients (N), Age (years), Followup period (FU) in months , Success rate (SR) in %, Patient satisfaction (PS) in %, and Complication rates (CR) in %. Values for FU, SR, and PS of the individual studies are presented as means. N.s. = not specified. Summarized information of the open and minimally invasive techniques studies are presented in the last lines of the respective sections (CMS = unweighted mean. Age, FU, SR, PS, and CR = weighted means ± SD)

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