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

Table 5

Table 5 shows the Chi-square probability values for findings on physical assessment correlated with SPECT in the lateral compartment of the knee in both study groups.

	Control group				Study group
	LatFmPs	LatFmPw	LatTiPs	LatTiPw	LatFmPs	LatFmPw	LatTiPs	LatTiPw
ALIGNMENT	0.9458	0.7006	0.1673	0.6587	0.0284	0.1184	0.0246	0.1633
ROTATION	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
FLUID	0.3290	0.2012	0.8370	0.9492	0.5651	0.7916	0.8864	0.6509
SYNOVIA	0.3290	0.2012	0.8370	0.9492	0.1680	0.1396	0.3715	0.8979
MEDJO	<0.0001	0.0529	0.2444	0.4964	0.7767	0.1971	0.3737	0.0076
LATJO	<0.0001	0.0008	0.9820	0.9992	0.5536	0.8991	0.4677	0.5286
PATJO	<0.0001	0.0039	0.8370	0.9492	0.0002	0.0162	0.0985	0.0549
POPFOS	0.1057	0.0391	0.3837	0.5900	0.0105	0.1530	0.4974	0.0016
BAKER	0.3166	0.1870	0.0675	0.1454	0.0484	0.0002	0.1436	0.2500
PES	0.5437	0.3233	0.8149	0.9740	0.5390	0.0076	0.0923	0.7481
BHT	—	—	—	—	0.2387	0.3840	0.2225	0.3145
EXT	0.9672	0.8075	0.0833	0.1474	0.0066	<0.0001	0.1306	0.0368
FLEX	0.3944	0.6383	0.0752	0.6883	0.2987	0.0061	0.8212	0.9441
MCMURRY	—	—	—	—	0.5113	0.6272	0.0414	0.0106
APLEY	—	—	—	—	0.5961	0.7880	0.0380	0.0078
COMPRES	—	—	—	—	0.4200	0.8848	0.7318	0.8966
ANTDRW	0.7859	0.7859	0.8370	0.9492	0.3924	0.7304	0.7318	0.8966
POSTDRW	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
MEDSTA	0.6144	0.6144	0.6980	0.8687	0.9722	0.9625	0.0375	<0.0001
LATSTA	—	—	—	—	0.0832	0.2110	0.4054	0.0163
PATGRIN	0.0005	0.0729	0.6883	0.8621	0.0032	0.0097	0.2775	0.4863
QANGLE	0.3696	0.3696	0.4796	0.6893	0.8207	0.9634	0.5957	0.1036