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Table 1 The distances measured between the sural nerve and the selected reference landmarks (n = 20 specimens)

From: The incision strategy for minimizing sural nerve injury in medial displacement calcaneal osteotomy: a cadaveric study

Distance (mm)

Median

Range

IQR

Mean

SD

Min

Max

Q1

Q3

D1

13.00

10.00

21.00

11.25

18.00

14.45

3.78

D2

27.50

21.00

32.00

24.00

30.75

27.20

3.71

D3

13.00

9.00

18.00

10.50

14.00

12.90

2.63

D4

41.50

27.00

53.00

35.50

46.50

41.45

6.89

D5

15.00

8.00

24.00

12.25

19.75

15.65

4.53

D6

27.50

13.00

39.00

20.50

30.00

25.90

6.56

  1. D1, the vertical distance from point A to the sural nerve; D2, the vertical distance from the sural nerve to point B; D3, the diagonal distance from point A to the sural nerve; D4, the diagonal distance from the sural nerve to point C; D5, the horizontal distance from point A to the sural nerve; D6, the horizontal distance from the sural nerve to point D; IQR, interquartile ranges; Q1, lower quartile; Q3, upper quartile; SD, standard deviation