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Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

Table 3 Incidence of lateral hinge fracture with OWDTO and OWHTO

From: Effect of lateral hinge fractures for bone union and clinical outcomes following opening-wedge distal tibial tubercle osteotomy in comparison with opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy

 

OWDTO (n = 50)

OWHTO (n = 50)

p value

LHF ( +)

27 (13/14)

20 (10/10)

0.90

LHF (-)

23 (5/18)

30 (8/22)

0.68

  1. Number of knees and sex of the patients (male/female) are shown. Between-group p value evaluated using the chi-squared test (χ2), p = 0.16
  2. LHF lateral hinge fracture, OWDTO opening-wedge distal tubercle osteotomy, OWHTO opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy
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