Research Article

Morphological Study of the Newly Designed Cementless Femoral Stem

Table 3

Femoral flare indices and their correlations.

Pearson correlation coefficients,
Prob > under H0: Rho = 0
CFIMCFI
MeanSDMLNOAPMLNOAP

CFI
 Mediolateral4.640.81  1.00  0.65   0.500.42 0.14  0.18
<0.0001 <0.00010.00090.30250.1797
 Neck-oriented3.39 0.51 0.65  1.00  0.78  0.34  0.29  0.29
<0.0001<0.00010.00720.02410.0234
 Anteroposterior2.43  0.41  0.50  0.78  1.00  0.31  0.14  0.48 
<0.0001<0.00010.01720.2776<0.0001
MCFI
 Mediolateral2.41 0.25  0.420.34 0.311.00  0.61 0.45 
  0.00090.0072  0.0172<0.00010.0004
 Neck-oriented2.25  0.23  0.14  0.290.14 0.61  1.00  0.57 
0.30250.0241 0.2776<0.0001<0.0001
 Anteroposterior1.80  0.21  0.18 0.29 0.48 0.45  0.57  1.00
0.17970.0234<0.00010.0004<0.0001

CFI: canal flare index; MCFI: metaphyseal canal flare index; SD: standard deviation; ML: mediolateral; AP: anteroposterior; and NO: neck-oriented.