Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics

Table 1 Dimensions of the anterior talofibular ligament in the general group, single fascicular and double fascicular ligaments

From: Morphometric relationships between dimensions the anterior talofibular ligament and calcaneofibular ligament in routine magnetic resonance imaging

		length [mm]	thickness [mm]	width [mm]	fibula [mm]	talus [mm]	volume [mm³]
General N = 251	average	24.5	2.2	5.0	5.7	4.3	250.9
	SD	3.3	0.3	0.7	0.9	0.5	50.9
	min	16.1	1.3	3.4	3.7	3.1	93.3
	max	33.1	3.0	6.9	7.3	5.6	375.7
		length [mm]	thickness [mm]	width [mm]	fibula [mm]	talus [mm]	volume [mm³]
single fascicular n = 58	average	24.2	2.6	4.9	6.2	4.2	297.5
	SD	2.8	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.6	47.2
	min	19.3	1.9	4.5	4.8	3.5	187
	max	27.9	3.0	6.9	6.9	5.2	375
		length [mm]	thickness [mm]	width [mm]	fibula [mm]	talus [mm]	volume [mm³]
double fascicular n = 193	average	24.6	2.1	5.0	5.6	4.3	257.5
	SD	3.4	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.5	50.2
	min	16.1	1.3	3.4	3.7	3.1	93.3
	max	33.1	2.8	6.7	7.3	5.6	375.7
p		> 0.05	< 0.001	> 0.05	< 0.001	> 0.05	< 0.001
ICC (95% CI)		0.89 (0.88–0.89)	0.82 (0.83–0.86)	0.81 (0.67–0.86)	0.58 (0.56–0.69)	0.60 (0.59–0.76)	0.74 (0.63–0.88)
SEM		0.83	0.08	0.12	0.17	0.08	19.1

Abbreviations: ICC intra-class correlation coefficient, min. Minimum, max. Maximum, SEM standard error of measurement, SD standard deviation. P-value refers to difference between single and double fascicular ligament

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