A comparison of clinical efficacy between different surgical approaches for popliteal cyst

Table 3 Surgery and post-surgery data (post hoc analysis)

	Group A vs B		Group A vs C		Group B vs C
	t/x ²	P value	t/x ²	P value	t/x ²	P value
Surgical time (min)	− 45.523	< 0.001	1.208	0.779	46.731	< 0.001
Length of incision (cm)	− 12.109	< 0.001	− 9.012	< 0.001	3.097	< 0.001
Incision healing rate	9.336	0.002	10.214	0.001	0.015	0.901
Postoperative VAS score	− 1.449	< 0.001	− 1.104	< 0.001	0.345	0.228
Hospitalization time (days)	− 8.051	< 0.001	− 8.076	< 0.001	− 0.025	0.983
Recovery to grade 0 or I cysts	0.145	0.704	12.254	< 0.001	6.947	0.008
Recurrence rate	0.145	0.704	12.254	< 0.001	6.947	0.008
Lysholm score at last follow-up	5.581	< 0.001	6.964	< 0.001	1.383	0.349

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