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Table 5 Clinical outcome of enchondromas treated surgically or conservatively without consideration of lesion size. Clinical score values are shown as mean with standard deviation (±SD)

From: Outcome of conservative and surgical treatment of enchondromas and atypical cartilaginous tumors of the long bones: retrospective analysis of 228 patients

 

surgery group enchondromas (n = 51) (histologically diagnosed)

non-surgery group enchondromas (n = 125) (radiologically diagnosed)

significance (p-value)

functional limitation score

 rating scale 0–3

0.2 (±0.5)

0.1 (±0.3)

0.036

pain score

 rating scale 0–10

1.6 (±2.1)

1.0 (±1.7)

0.024

satisfaction score

 rating scale 0–10

8.8 (±1.5)

9.2 (±1.2)

0.057

MSTS score

 rating scale 0–30

28.6 (±1.7)

29.2 (±1.3)

0.018