Patient No. | Age Sex | Before meniscectomy | 1 year after meniscectomy | Changes between the 2 periods | |||||||||
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EW (mm) | IW (mm) | EW (mm) | IW (mm) | EW (mm) | IW (mm) | ||||||||
MM | LM | MM | LM | MM | LM | MM | LM | MM | LM | MM | LM | ||
1. | 50’s, F | 1.4 | 1.6 | 7.8 | 10.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 5.7 | 9.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
2. | 60’s, F | 2.8 | −1.2 | 5.6 | 7.9 | 2.8 | −1.6 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 0.0 | −0.4 | 2.0 | 0.1 |
3. | 60’s, F | 1.4 | −0.3 | 8.7 | 12.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 12.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 4.0 | 0.1 |
4. | 60’s, F | 4.4 | 1.9 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 0.0 |
5. | 60’s, F | 1.8 | 0.2 | 6.7 | 10.1 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 9.8 | 0.4 | −0.2 | 2.9 | 0.3 |
6. | 70’s, F | 3.4 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 9.1 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
7. | 70’s, F | 2.7 | −2.2 | 3.9 | 12.5 | 2.8 | −2.1 | 2.7 | 12.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.2 | −0.1 |
8. | 70’s, F | 2.9 | 0.6 | 8.5 | 9.7 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 2.6 |
9. | 80’s, M | 3.9 | −0.6 | 7.2 | 15.3 | 5.5 | −0.4 | 4.4 | 15.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 2.8 | −0.3 |
10. | 60’s, M | 5.5 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 15.0 | 5.6 | −0.1 | 3.3 | 15.3 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 1.9 | −0.3 |
Mean | 3.0 | 0.1 | 6.3 | 10.8 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 3.9 | 10.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 0.4 | |
(SD) | (1.3) | (1.2) | (1.7) | (3.0) | (1.4) | (1.3) | (1.0) | (3.3) | (0.5) | (0.3) | (0.9) | (0.9) | |
P value | P = 0.0002 a | P = 0.0010 a | P = 0.0002 a | P < 0.0001 a | P = 0.0039 b | N.S. b | P = 0.0020 b | N.S. b |