Marker- three dimensional measurement versus traditional radiographic measurement in the treatment of tibial fracture using Taylor spatial frame

Table 1 General information of two groups of patients

	Cases^a	Gender^a		Age^b (Years)	BMI^b (kg/m²)	Gustilo classification^a
	Cases^a	male	female	Age^b (Years)	BMI^b (kg/m²)	type II	type III
Experimental group	21	15	6	49.5±14.8	23.7±2.4	13	8
Control group	20	17	3	47.6±14.3	23.4±2.2	14	6
P^*	-	0.50		0.67	0.73	0.59

^aData are presented as number of patients
^bData are presented as mean ± standard deviation
*P values were calculated using Student’s t test and the Pearson chi-square test

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