Comparison of Clinical and Biomechanical Outcomes between Partial Fibulectomy and Drug Conservative Treatment for Medial Knee Osteoarthritis

Table 1

Baseline characteristics and intraoperative data.

	Drug group	Fibulectomy group	value
Cases	48	49
Sex^‡
Male	6	5	0.721
Female	42	44
Affected^‡
Left	24	23	0.763
Right	24	26
Age (years)^†	56.06 ± 8.75	57.86 ± 9.51	0.336
Height (cm)^†	158.38 ± 6.91	157.82 ± 6.96	0.693
Weight (kg)^†	61.44 ± 8.65	62.10 ± 8.80	0.709
BMI (kg/m^2)^†	24.64 ± 4.20	25.10 ± 4.39	0.595
Course (years)^†	3.69 ± 1.53	3.98 ± 1.45	0.349
KL grades^∆
1	10	6	0.159
2	32	33
3	6	10
Surgical time (min)	—	26.39 ± 10.16	—
LOH (days)	—	3.80 ± 1.35	—

BMI: body mass index; KL grades: Kellgren–Lawrence grades; LOH: length of hospital stay; ^‡Pearson’s chi-square test; ^†Student’s t-test; ^∆Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test.