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in patient-reported outcomes between final
and preoperative values. In the other case,
Wilcoxon’s test or sign test were performed.
Gnumeric (Free Software Foundation, Boston,
USA) and “R” (R Foundation for Statical
Computing, Vienna, Austria) were used for
statistical analyses.
Results
Between 1997 and 2011, 31 HTVO in
30 patients (sex ratio=1) were performed for
primary osteoarthritis and were reviewed at
mean 12 years of follow-up (range: 3.1 years
– 16.6 years).
Fig. 1 : Surgical technique