SPECT versus Planar Scintigraphy as a Clinical Aid in Evaluation of the Elderly with Knee Pain

Table 3

Table 3 shows the Chi-square probability for findings on physical assessment correlated with planar scintigraphy in the medial compartment of the knee in both study groups.

	Control group				Study group
	MedFmPs	MedFmPw	MedTiPs	MedTiPw	MedFmPs	MedFmPw	MedTiPs	MedTiPw
ALIGNMENT	0.8207	0.7046	0.8352	0.7082	0.2267	0.1692	0.2569	0.0455
ROTATION	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
FLUID	0.5617	0.8450	0.7675	0.7580	0.0068	0.0098	0.0010	<0.0001
SYNOVIA	0.5617	0.8450	0.7675	0.7580	0.0051	0.0001	0.0001	0.0007
MEDJO	0.9169	0.9936	0.0346	0.8127	0.2809	0.0380	0.0701	0.0149
LATJO	0.7934	0.9844	0.9510	0.9453	0.4444	0.4532	0.1826	0.0590
PATJO	0.5617	0.8450	0.7675	0.7580	0.0656	0.1528	0.2800	0.0343
POPFOS	0.4093	0.5438	0.8082	0.7285	0.0616	0.0145	0.5306	0.5613
BAKER	0.0838	0.1325	0.3166	0.2616	0.0462	<0.0001	0.5861	0.0848
PES	0.8302	0.9763	0.0001	0.0096	0.0541	0.8275	0.0978	0.2501
BHT	—	—	—	—	0.0055	0.0035	0.1471	0.3207
EXT	0.2163	0.4675	0.3010	0.8128	0.0007	<0.0001	0.0027	<0.0001
FLEX	0.9297	0.0041	0.3731	0.3129	0.0029	0.0002	0.1090	0.0138
MCMURRY	—	—	—	—	0.1783	0.0897	0.9597	0.3634
APLEY	—	—	—	—	0.1176	0.0399	0.2873	0.1656
COMPRES	—	—	—	—	0.1032	0.1248	0.0867	0.0037
ANTDRW	0.0817	0.1290	0.3112	0.2566	0.1032	0.0497	0.9041	0.8771
POSTDRW	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
MEDSTA	0.4903	0.7115	0.0945	0.0640	0.8977	0.8977	0.5161	0.6965
LATSTA	—	—	—	—	0.4566	0.6784	0.1872	0.3677
PATGRIN	0.1441	0.3442	0.0006	0.6723	0.0009	0.0151	0.0033	0.0070
QANGLE	1.000	0.8717	0.6471	0.4641	0.8512	0.6513	0.6523	0.0564