Tamoxifen Prevents Peritendinous Adhesions: A Preliminary Report

Table 3

Macroscopical, histopathological, and adhesion mean scores among the groups. Please notice that similar findings are observed between group 2 and group 3. Group 4 shows reduced scores compared with the other groups. The generated peritendinous habitual reaction to trauma is profoundly less in group 4 when compared to G1CON (macro: macroscopical; micro: microscopical-histopathological; G1CON: group 1 control; G1SHAM: group 1 sham).

	G1CON	G1SHAM	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
macro1 (quantity)	1.54	0.00	2.18	1.63	0.91
macro2 (quality)	1.72	0.00	1.81	2.09	1.27
macro3 (adhesion)	2.00	0.00	3.27	3.63	1.27
micro1 (quantity)	1.81	0.00	2.27	2.09	1.18
micro2 (quality)	1.90	0.00	2.09	2.09	1.18
micro3 (adhesion)	2.73	0.00	3.27	3.90	1.36