Comparing morbidities of bone graft harvesting from the anterior iliac crest and proximal tibia: a retrospective study

Table 1 Data from anterior iliac crest (AIC) v.s. proximal tibia (PT)

Parameter	AIC	PT	p value
Number of patients	10	8
Average age (years)	49.7	47.4	0.474^a
Gender (M/F)	6/4	4/4	1.000^b
Complication rate at harvesting site (%)	n = 3 (30%)	n = 2 (25%)	1.000^b
Average VAS of recipient site on POD 1	4.9 ± 0.57	5.25 ± 0.89	0.471^a
Average VAS at harvesting site
POD 1	5.2 ± 1.0	1.5 ± 0.5	< 0.001^a
POD 5	3.8 ± 0.8	0.3 ± 0.5	< 0.001^a
POD 14	2.5 ± 0.7	0.1 ± 0.4	< 0.001^a
POD 28	0.3 ± 0.5	0	0.216^a
POD 56	0.1 ± 0.3	0	1.000^a

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